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President .. E. A. Menneer, Esq. 



WORKING MEMBERS. 

 T. I. G. Thomas. B. W. C. A. Rbndlb. 



T. A. HoDSON. L. C. Tate. 



H. N. Wright. A. G. N. Belfield. 



H. P. M. Egleston. W. G. Searle. 



wo good note-books were sent in, and the 

 sectional prize was awarded to T. A. Hodson. 

 The prize-winner shewed a minute knowledge 

 of the bird life of the locality, and in many 

 cases followed up his observations with 

 successful inferences about the habits of 

 birds. It is hoped that in 1902 still more 

 note-books will be kept, if only as a perman- 

 ent record of the season's work. 

 The magnificent bequest soon to be added to the College 

 Museum is spoken of elsewhere. Its presence in our midst 

 should prove an invaluable stimulus to the industry and enthusiasm 

 of the Ornithological Section. 



The Museum is indebted to T. I. G. Thomas for a hawfinch's 

 nest found on the Crippets, and especially noteworthy is the 

 appearance of a swift flying overhead on September 16. One 

 member tells the story, unfortunately only at second hand, of a 

 brood of 12 or 13 ducklings starting to cross a pond, and falling 

 victims without exception to the voracity of pike before they 

 were able to reach the opposite bank about 25 yards off. The 

 same member puts it on record of chaffinches that " these birds 

 are omnivorous, for they will take corn in Winter." ! 



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