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that he had promised to contribute to the volumes of the 

 ' Thierreich/ which Dr. Schultze was proposing to publish 

 in Berlin. The Chairman pointed out that the scope of his 

 proposed work was entirely different from that of the 

 * Thierreich/ 



Mr. F. E. Blaauw exhibited an egg of Psophia leucoptera 

 which had been laid in his aviaries at s^'Graveland during 

 the past summer. This was believed to be the first oppor- 

 tunity afforded to ornithologists of knowing what the egg 

 of Psophia was like, and it was interesting to find that the 

 Trumpeter laid a pure white egg. 



Dr. Druitt exhibited a specimen of the Senegal Stone- 

 Curlew {CEdicnemus senegalensis) which he had shot near 

 Assouan J in Upper Egypt. 



Mr, G. H. Caton Haigh exhibited a specimen of the 

 Water-Pipit [Anthus spipoletta) killed in Lincolnshire during 

 the past autumn. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited some of the down of the 

 King Penguin [Aptenodytes pennanti), from specimens now 

 living in the Zoological Society's Gardens. 



No. XXXIII. (Feb. 29th, 1896.) 



The thirty-second meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 19th of February, 1896. 



Chairman: P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — O. V. Aplin, G. Barrett-Hamilton, 

 E. Bidwell, W. E. De Winton, E. A. S. Elliot, H. J. 

 Elwes, W. Graham, W. R. Ogilvie Grant, E. Hartert, 

 Lt.-Col. L. H. Irby, a. H. Macpherson, J. G. Millais, 

 E. Neale, R. Nesham, C. E. Pearson, Frank Penrose, 



