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Mr. Badger moved the next resolution (which was seconded by Mr. 

 John Levick) — " That the thanks of the Union be presented to the 

 Northampton Natural History Society for the exceUent arrangements 

 they have made for the present gathering of the Union." The mover 

 took the opportunity to remark on the amount of hard work which the 

 Northampton Committee had done, to provide for the comfort and 

 instruction of the members, and paid a well-deserved compliment to the 

 Rev. S. J. W. Sanders, Mr. G. E. Crick, and others, who had spared no 

 pains to make the meeting memorable and successful. 



On the proposition of the Rev. Canon Scott, seconded by Lord 

 Lilford, it was unanimously resolved : — "That the thanks of this meeting 

 be given to the President (Sir Herewald Wake, Bart.) for his able and 

 courteous conduct in the chair." — The annual meeting then terminated. 



Immediately afterwards the Council i-e-assembled, and appointed the 

 following gentlemen (with power to add to their number) the Manage- 

 ment Committee for the ensuing year : — The President, Sir H. Wake, 

 Bart.; the President-elect, Dr. T. Wright, F.R.S., (Cheltenham); the 

 Editors of the " Midland Naturalist," the Hon. Secretaries, the Hon. 

 Treasurer, Mr. F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S., (Leicester,) Mr. Edmund Tonks, 

 B.C.L., (Birmingham,) Rev. Dr. Deane, (Birmingham,) Rev. H. W. 

 Crosskey, F.G.S., (Birmingham,) Mr. Lawson Tait, F.R.C.S., (Birming- 

 ham,) and Mr. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., (Birmingham.) 



ROUGH NOTES 

 ON COLLECTION OF NOETHAMPTONSHIEE BIRDS, 



Presented to Northampton Natural History Society, June 17th, 1880. 



BY LORD LILFORD. 



As I said in the address*, which I had the honour to read to the 

 General Meeting of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies at 

 Northampton, the present collection has no pretension to be a complete 

 one of the birds of our county, but is a fairly representative one of our 

 resident species, with a few, chiefly autumnal, migrants, and a small 

 number of occasional stragglers. 



The only specimen of Peregrine Falcon, (F.peregrinus ,) is an immature 

 female, shot in the immediate neighbourhood of my house in north 

 Northamptonshire. This species is by no means uncommon with us as 

 an autumnal visitor, attending on the flocks of wild-fowl which visit the 

 Nene Valley. Vide Journal of Northampton Natural History Society, 

 No. 1, pp. 7, 8, 9. 



The two Hobbies, (F. subbuteo,) are a fine adult male, shot in August, 

 1879, close to Lilford, and a female not so fully adult, shot a few years 

 ago within half a mile of the same spot. This species is a pretty regular 

 though not an abundant summer visitor to our district. Vide op. supra 

 cit., pp. 9, 10. 



* See ante page 159. 



