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R. H. Read, Howard Saunders [Treasurer] , R. Bowdler 

 SiiARPE [Editor), E. Cavendish Taylor, N. F. Ticehurst, 

 A. B. R. Trevor-Battye, H. M. Wallis, Watkin Watkins, 

 Johnson Wilkinson, Lionel A, Williams, John Young. 



Visitors: J. Howard Davies, Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, 

 H. Stevens, S. Yardle^, C.M.G., J. J. Baldwin Young. 



Mr, Robert Read exhibited and made remarks on some 

 interesting nests of birds from Sweden, a nest of the 

 Honey-Buzzard being among the specimens exhibited. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe stated that Professor Smit, the 

 Director of the Stockholm Museum, had kindly for- 

 warded to England, for his inspection, the type specimen 

 of Plangus n(Boy<sus of Sundevall ((Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 

 Stockholm, 1874, p. 28). Since the species had been 

 described and made the type of a distinct genus, no one 

 had attempted to determine its identity, and it was inter- 

 esting to find that Plangus naeogcEus was in reality the young 

 of Harpyhalia'etus coronatus. 



Dr. Sharpe also exhibited a specimen of the Pied Wagtail 

 [Motacilla lugubris), shot near Wandsworth on the 18th of 

 October by Mr. Henry Grant. The changes through which 

 the bird was passing were clearly, according to Dr. Sharpe, 

 those of pattern in the feather rather than those of moult. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a chick of the Black-winged Pea- 

 fowl [Pavo nigripennis) which had been bred in Mr. Blaauw's 

 garden in Holland, and remarked that he still strongly main- 

 tained the validity of tbis species, which in the 22nd volume 

 of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' bad been classed only as a 

 " well-marked variety,'' and was confident that its native 

 habitat would be ultimately discovered. Not only was the 

 male of this species different from that of P. cristatus, but 

 the female was quite difi'ereut, and so was the young, as 

 shown by the specimen now exhibited. 



Mr. Sclater read the following notes from Mr. Blaauw on 

 this subject : — 



