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described by Mr. Butterfield, in the ' Zoologist ' for August 

 1896, as having been shot near Winchelsea. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant exhibited a fine series of skins 

 of birds collected by Mr. John Whitehead in the Philippines, 

 among them being examples of the two new species of 

 Thrushes described in the current number of ' The Ibis/ and 

 of the new Turnix whiteheadi, described by him in the 

 second volume of his ' Handbook to the Game-Birds.' 



Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh exhibited a specimen of Phyllo- 

 scopus viridanus shot by himself on the 5th of September 

 at North Cotes, Lincolnshire. This Asiatic species was 

 new to Great Britain, but had occurred three times on 

 Heligoland. 



Mr. L. BoNHOTE exhibited a series of skins of the Common 

 Linnet [Fringilla cannabina), showing the gradual change of 

 colour on the breast-feathers of the male. He also described 

 the nesting of the Corn-Crake {Crex pratensis) in captivity, 

 and remarked that both captive and wild birds of this species 

 moulted the whole of their quills directly after the young 

 were hatched, and that both male and female were then 

 incapable of flight. 



Mr. Bonhote also exhibited a remarkably large skin of a 

 Nightingale, shot in August in Cambridgeshire, which 



Mr. ScLATER read some extracts from letters received from 

 Mr. J. Graham Kerr (B.O.U.), who had recently left England 

 for Western Paraguay. They contained many notes on the 

 birds observed during his voyage up the La Plata and Para- 

 guay Rivers to Asuncion, where he had arrived on Sept. 13th. 

 As regards the alleged occurrence of a second species of 

 Cormorant on these rivers (Aplin, Ibis, 1894, p. 152), he was 

 inclined to refer all the numerous specimens he had hitherto 

 seen to Phalacrocorax brasilianiLS. On Sept. 1 2th he observed 

 immense numbers of alligators along the banks, and several 

 flocks of Chauna cristata, amongst one of which were some 



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