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Major R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay, Howard Saunders {Trea- 

 surer), Capt. G. E. Shelley, W. B. Tegetmeier, A. Trevor- 

 Battye, H. M. WalliSj J. Young. 



Visitors : E. Garnet Man, Colchester Wemyss. 



Mr. E. A, S. Elliot exhibited some interesting skins of 

 North- American birds ; amongst others, specimens of the 

 various southern and northern forms of Bubo virginianus ; 

 Megascops flammeola from Colorado, said to belong to the 

 first clutch of eggs sent to the Smithsonian Institution; 

 Sphyropicus thyroideus (both sexes), two examples of Falco 

 richardsoni; and a Xema sabinii in breeding-plumage, remark- -/- 

 able as having been obtained in Colorado. 



Mr. H. M. Wallis exhibited three eggs laid by a Golden 

 Eagle {Aquila chrysaetus), which had been about thirty years 

 in confinement, and began to lay eggs about fifteen years ago. 

 The eggs having been taken and those of a Domestic Fowl 

 substituted, the Eagle hatched three of the latter and reared 

 three fine birds, feeding them principally on the flesh of rats. 

 One of these fowls, a cockerel, was slain by his foster-mother, 

 but the others had thriven. A photograph was exhibited, 

 showing the Eagle and the fowls. 



A letter addressed to Dr. Bowdler Sharpe by Count 

 Salvadori was read, in which he called attention to the 

 diff'erences of plumage exhibited by a series of Diphyllodes 

 recently received by him from S.E. New Guinea. He 

 proposed to divide them as follows : — 



I. Capite fusco-griseo, minime rufescente. 



a. Alls ochraceis \, D. magnifica, 



b. Alls Isete flavis 2. D. seleucides. 



c. Alls aurantiacis 3. J), chrysoptera. 



II. Capite rufescenti-brunneo. 



d. Alls Isete flavis 4. D. xanthoptera,s}^. n. / 



e. Alis IcBte aurantiacis 6. D. hunsteini. 



Mr. Howard Saunders made some remarks on his arrange- 

 ment of the Order Gavice in vol. xxv, of the 'British Museum 

 Catalogue.' He divided the Order into two Families : — 

 Larid^, containing Terns, Skimmers, and Gulls; Sterco- 



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