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these rare visitants a like claim to be admitted into the restricted 

 lists of a particular district. The memoranda which follow the 

 list in this instance, will show that there is no desire on the 

 part of the compiler to lay claim to them as natives. On the 

 large ponds in the neighbourhood, a number of Gulls have, at 

 various times, been killed; most have been in an immature state 

 of plumage, and therefore not easily distinguished ; a circum- 

 stance excusable when it is recollected the only authority 

 possessed by Ornithologists was Bewick's, whose descriptions, 

 nomenclature, and figures of the Gulls, are very far from 

 satisfactory. The total number of birds suffers a diminution on 

 this account, as those species not ascertained have been wholly 

 omitted. E. N. D. 



Art. XXXIX. — Proceedings of the Entomological Cluh. 



Sitting of the 20th October, 1836. 



Present, — Messrs. Bevington, Bennett, Bowerbank, J. F. 

 Christy, Davis, Hanson, Stanger, Shaw, Trusted, and 

 Newman. 



Mr. Bevington in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last sitting wei'e read and confirmed. 



The Curator reported, that in compliance with the directions 

 of the Club, embodied in a Minute of the last sitting, he had 

 insured the property of the Club, in his possession, to the 

 amount of £750. 



The Curator read the following list of donations : — 



Mr. J. LouNDs, of Quebec. Various Coleoptera collected 

 by himself in the neighbourhood of Quebec, transmitted through 

 the hands of Mr. Hoyer. 



loNicus of the Entomological Magazine. Various Coleop- 

 tera collected by himself in Cephalonia, Corfu, &c. transmitted 

 through the hands of Mr. Walker. 



Mr. Henry Doubleday, of Epping. About two hundred 

 and fifty specimens of British Lepidoptera, collected by himself 



