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Observations, which was commenced in 1894. It is singular 

 that, so far as I know, there has never been a purely orni- 

 thological journal started in France; but Italy has lately 

 started an ' Avicula ' — pm'va sed omnino Italica ! With 

 hearty wishes for success, in which I am sure you will join me, 

 to this youngest, and likewise to every other member of the 

 confraternity of ornithological journals, T have only to ask 

 your kind excuses for having so long occupied your attention." 



Mr. F. G. Jackson, whose return to England was heartily 

 welcomed by the members of the Club, gave an interesting 

 account of the birds observed by him during his three years' 

 residence in Franz Josef Land, and referred especially to the 

 nesting of the Ivory Gull {Pagophila ebnr'nea). Specimens 

 of the various species collected by the Jackson-Harmsworth 

 Expedition were exhibited, and Mr. Howard Saunders, in his 

 remarks on the collection, drew special attention to the 

 occurrence of the Lapland Bunting {Calcarius lappo7iicus) 

 at Cape Flora in June, this being the first record of the 

 species in the Franz Josef group of islands. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited, on behalf of the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, skins of some highly interesting species 

 of birds from the Tring Museum : Macgregoria pidclira and 

 Astrapia splendidissima (with the hitherto undescribed female) 

 from New Guinea, Myiadestes coracina from Colombia, 

 Zosterops babelo from the Talaut Islands, Scops alfredi from 

 Flores, and a female of Eudynamis honorata, in nearly com- 

 plete barred plumage, but retaining still some black feathers 

 of the first plumage, when both males and females were 

 entirely black. 



Mr. Hartert was also able to announce that good results 

 might shortly be expected from the expeditions despatched 

 by Mr. Rothschild to the Galapagos Islands and the Upper 

 Orinoco. 



Mr. OsBERT Salvin forwarded descriptions of five species 

 of South-American birds. Four of these were from British 



