Ornithologists' Club. 881 



Mr. ScLATER gave a sliort account of the tour he 

 had recently marie up the Nile from Cairo to "Wadi 

 Halfeh and back. Travelling by the post-steamer, he had 

 been unable to make collections, but with the aid of field- 

 glasses had identified examples of about 50 species of birds. 

 In February above the First Cataract many birds were already 

 breeding, although the ordinary migrants from the south had 

 not yet arrived. Young Hoopoes and Wheatears fully fledged 

 were offered for sale by the natives. A nest and two eggs 

 of the Pale Crag-Swallow {Cotile obsoleta) had been taken 

 from a ledge in the smaller temple at Abou Simbel. The 

 necessity for a new edition of Shelley^s ' Birds of Egypt ' 

 was insisted on. 



Mr. BiDWELL exhibited, by permission of Mr. H. Stevens, 

 a handsome specimen of the egg of the Great Auk [Alca 

 impennis), from the collection of Sir F. Milner. The speci- 

 men was especially remarkable for the ''' pitted ^' nature of 

 the shell. 



Mr. Stevens showed a large photograph of the Great 

 Auk, taken from a specimen in Sir F. Milner's collection, 

 which had been remounted by Mr. Cullingford of Durham, 

 and which was considered to be one of the finest known 

 specimens of this bird. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe brought some specimens of birds 

 from the collection recently made by Dr. Donaldson Smith, 

 during his expedition from Somali-land to Lake Rudolf. 

 In addition to those species described at the last Meeting of 

 the Club, Dr. Sharpe exhibited examples of the following 

 new species : — 



TURACUS DONALDSONI, Sp. U. 



T. pileo antico viridi, postice pallide coccineo, et macula 

 magna anteoculari alb^ distinguendus. Long. tot. 16" 5 

 poll., alse 7"2. 

 Hab. Meo. 



