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the 19th of June last year, but the notice of this event was 

 accidentally omitted in the October number of f The Ibis.' 

 There were 127 lots in all, but the greater number of them 

 were eggs. Most of these had been taken by Stark himself, 

 who was a first-rate field-naturalist and collector (see c Ibis/ 

 1900, p. 220). Many of the eggs were those mentioned in 

 Irby's f Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar' and in 

 Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway's ' Birds of North America/ 

 The prices obtained were, as a rule, very low. Some fine 

 eggs of the Bearded Vulture, from Spain, fetched .£2 2s. ; 

 of the Cinereous Vulture 12s. ; of Bonelli's Eagle 8s. ; of 

 the Booted Eagle 6s. A nest with five eggs and two skins 

 of the Blue Rock-Thrush (both sexes) brought 25s, ; a nest of 

 Savi's Warbler, with four eggs, 35s. ; of Cetti's Warbler, 

 with four eggs, 6s. Two eggs of the Great Bustard were 

 sold for 7s. ! Of the North-American lots a clutch of two 

 eggs of Buteo krideri (referred to in the ' Birds of North 

 America/ vol. iii. p. 284) fetched 35s., and a clutch of eggs 

 of Bartram's Sandpiper, with a skin of the female, from 

 Minnesota, together with other skins, brought only 14s. 

 The books sold were few ; the most important being a fine 

 set of 'The Ibis' (1859-99), £85, and the "Zoology" of 

 the ' Biologia Centrali-Americana ' (parts 1-150), £80. 



Death of Mr. T. E. Buckley. — It is with the greatest regret 

 that Ave have to announce the death, on the 5th of November, 

 of our fellow-member, Mr. T. E. Buckley, of Inverness, 

 whose name is well known to all readers of ' The Ibis.' The 

 obituarial notice is unavoidably postponed until our next 

 number. 



