22 Mr. H. C. Collyer on the 
M. cyaneus—was a brilliant turquoise blue and black ; another, 
black. and scarlet; while a third—M. pulcherrimus—combined 
the tints of the two foregoing. The little emu wren, Stipiturus 
malachurus, while of a more sober brown tint, was conspicuous 
for the peculiarly elongated and slender growth of its primary 
tail feathers. Both this and others of the preceding species were 
photographed in association with Australian acacias aud other 
flowering plants indigenous to their native habitats. 
A justly admired peacock’s feather, in which the characteristic 
tints were most realistically reproduced, brought Mr. Saville- 
Kent’s demonstration to its conclusion. 
Mr. Saville-Kent remarked in conclusion that the more im- 
portant materials that are, so to say, essential for the successful 
prosecution of this photographic process illustrated by him that 
evening were :—Correct colour screens, such as are constructed 
by Mr. Sanger Shepherd and the Cadett Lightning Spectrum 
Plate, which has been specially manufactured for use in con- 
junction with the foregoing screens. As regards ‘cameras, any 
form of stand camera could be utilised for this process; many 
of the subjects which he had exhibited having been taken with 
a kodak camera, across the front lens of which he had slung 
consecutive sections of-his colour screen. 
148.—Tue Srone Monuments or Brirrany. 
By H. C. Conuysr. 
(Read May 15th, 1900.) 
THESE monuments are mainly concentrated in that part of» 
Lower Brittany surrounding the Morbihan Sea, near the villages 
of Carnac, Plouharmel, and Locmariaker. and not far from the 
town of Auray, a district which seems to have been dedicated to 
religious and sepulchral purposes by the population of a large 
tract of country. They consist of Menhirs or Standing Stones, 
arranged in rows side by side, which stretch for long distances 
across the country ; others are placed to form square or circular 
enclosures, and some, the largest of all, standing singly ; and, 
secondly, Dolmens, or Table Stones, which in this country we 
call Cromlechs; but the term Cromlech is there applied to the 
square or circular enclosures of standing stones. The dolmens 
are larger than anything of the kind found in these islands, and 
occur in great numbers, and in various states of preservation. 
There are many hundreds of standing stones, but, numerous 
