60 Proceedings 
Rough-legged Buzzards were shewn; the marks by which 
to distinguish a Lanner Falcon from a Peregrine on the 
wing, a Hobby from a Kestrel, a Lammergeyer from a 
Vulture, and an Egyptian Vulture from an Eagle or from 
a Griffon were depicted by outline sketches of the char- 
acteristic curvatures of the wings of each in flight, or the 
barrings, and massings of colour as seen from below. The 
Black Tern and the White Winged Black Tern, the Fire- 
Crest and Gold-Crest, were similarly treated, whilst rude 
sketches of the Great Black Woodpecker, the Nutcracker, 
Alpine Swift, Wall Creeper, Snow Finch and Snow Bunt- 
ing were shewn, enough perhaps to give a casual observer 
some clue to what he was looking at. Coming to the 
waterbirds, the lecturer spoke of the difficulty of seeing 
these at all except upon the wing in the act of escape, or 
resting or swimming at a considerable distance; rough 
sketches of the Golden-eye, the Goosander, Red-breasted 
Merganser, Tufted Duck, Pochard, &c., were given shew- 
ing the general distribution of white and black. The Eider 
and King Eider were similarly dealt with—the Scaup and 
Harlequin and Shoveller. The Velvet Scoter, as distin- 
guished from the Scoter and the Gannet, from any of the 
Gulls were insisted upon, whilst coming to those, a small, 
creeping and dull-coloured birds, the Warblers, it was only 
possible to shew the striations of the Aquatic Warbler, the 
eye-brow stripe of the Bonelli, the peculiar size of the 
Great Reed Warbler. Savi’s may be recognised from the 
Grasshopper Warbler by its unspotted back (if you can 
find them in the pestilential swamp which he loves). 
Among the Larks the crest of the Crested Lark, the big, 
coarse bill of the Calandra, the square-cut tail and soft 
flute call-notes of the Wood-Lark were mentioned, whilst 
the black ear tufts of the Shore Lark and his black external 
tail feathers (just where the other Larks have white) was 
depicted, The Shrikes were touched upon; the startling 
plumage of the Woodchat is warrant for itself, but the black 
forehead of the Lesser Grey Shrike is as good if less 
generally known. The Hoopoe is not easily mistaken for 
any thing else and literally “speaks for itself’; its loud 
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