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and past members of the school who will help to supply our wants as 

 as we are able to tabulate them, and we may mention that Mr. 

 Tanner has given us his collection. 



As the Spring will soon be here attention is called to the British 

 birds' eggs forming the College collection, which have been lately 

 arranged in the new cabinet. There are very many prominent gaps as 

 given below, and it is much hoped that members of the N.H.S. will do 

 their best to fill them up if at the expense even of their own collections. 

 In nine cases out of ten a boy's collection is placed out of sight in a 

 lumber room on his leaving school. The result is that its contents are 

 lost to him or to a permanent and public collection (such as the one 

 here) which might become distinctly good if some general interest 

 were shown in it. 



There is a catalogue in connection with the cabinet in which will 

 be inserted the names of those presenting eggs of any rarity or to any 

 extent. 



The following eggs are particularly wanted : — 



Ring Ouze]. Redstart. Linnet. 



Redwing. Grasshopper Warbler. Brambling. 



Fieldfare. Dipper. Mealy Redpole. 



Whinchat. Giskin. Marsh Titmouse. 



Stonechat. Hawfinch. Wood-lark 



Pied Wagtail. Hooded Crow. Snow Bunting. 



Grey „ Crowbill Lapland ,, 



Yellow ,, Com Bunting Cirl ,. 



The Hawk tribe and marsh and river birds are scarcely represented 

 at all. The commoner birds of sport are good, but the eggs of only 

 the following sea-birds are to be seen, viz., Artie and Sooty Terns, 

 Oyster-Catcher, Curlew, Guillemot, Razor-bill, Black-headed and 

 Herring Gulls, and Richardson's Skua. 



JUNIOR SCHOOL. 



President - - - F. J. Cade, Esq. 



Working Members : 



Fort, L. Hodgson, T. A. 



Pemberton, E. H. Collett, L. G. 



The prize was gained by L. Fort with 24 specimens. In the 



following lists the initials of Juniors have been appended only to those 



