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Mr. Dig BY Pigott informed the meeting that a Magpie 

 and a Jackdaw had together occupied and repaired an okl 

 Magpie's nest in St. James's Park, and that that morning 

 the Jackdaw had been noticed inside the nest with the 

 Magpie in close attendance. He asked whether any Member 

 of the Club was aware of any previous instance of these birds 

 pairing. He had been informed that something of the kind 

 had occurred in Wales, but had heard no particulars. 



Mr. W. P. Pycraft mentioned that he had recently 

 received from Mr. Frank Finn a specimen of the Blue- 

 throated Barbet [Cyanops asiaticn) which showed a similar 

 heel-pad to that found in the Wryneck {It/nx toi'quilla). 

 The specimen would be exhibited at the next meeting. 



No. LXII. (April 29th, 1899). 



The sixty-first Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 19th of April, 1899, Chairman: P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Twenty Members and four guests were present. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant gave an account of his recent 

 journey to Socotra, and exhibited a series of specimens 

 obtained by himself and Dr. H. O. Forbes. Among them 

 were examples of the following new birds, full descriptions 

 of which would appear in the ' Bulletin ' of the Liverpool 

 Museum : — Scops socotranus, Capriniulgus jonesi, Motacilla 

 forwoodi, Fringillaria insularis, F. socotrana, Passer hemi- 

 leucus, and Phalacrocorax nigrogularis . 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited a stuffed spe- 

 cimen of Casuarius casuarius sclateri, shot by Herr Emil 

 Weiske on the Brown River, S.E. New Guinea. 



This form had been originally described by Count Salvadori 

 from a specimen which died in the Zoological Gardens about 

 the year 1875. He had afterwards united the species with 

 Casuarius casuarius beccarii (Sclater) ; but the latter was 



