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breasted Snipe, taken respectively on the 29th of September 

 in Queen's Co. and in Tipperary on the 11th of November. 

 The latter was tentatively referred to the Western form, 

 Macrorkamphus scolopaceus. 



Mr. J, E. Harting exhibited a specimen of a rare Austra- 

 lian Duck {Stictonetta ncevosa) from Gippsland. 



Mr. H. J. Pearson made some remarks on the birds ob- 

 served by himself and Mr. Bidwell during a recent trip 

 to Norway. 



No. XV. (March 8th, 1894.) 



The fourteenth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 2 1st of February, 1894. 



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



Members present x—Yj. Bidwell, Philip Crowley, W. E, 

 De Winton, W. Graham, E. Neale, F. Menteith Ogilvie, 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, H. J. Pearson, F. Penrose, T. Digby 

 PiGOTT, C.B., Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay, R. H. Read, 

 Howard Saunders, H. Seebohm, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 F. W. Styan, W. B. Tegetmeier, Capt. H. A. Terry, 

 C. J. Wilson, John Young. 



Visitors : Dr. J. R. Bradford, C. Pearson, H. Stevens. 



Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited his set of photographs of eggs 

 of the Great Auk [Alca impennis), and stated that the -f 

 series laid before the Members comprised illustrations of 

 every known specimen except four. By the kind permis- 

 sion of Mr. Stevens, Mr. Bidwell was also able to exhibit 

 to the meeting the egg of the Great Auk which was to be 

 sold by auction on the morrow. It Avas an object of great 

 interest to all the members present, as it was originally the 

 property of Yarrell, and after his death passed into the hands 

 of his friend Frederick Bond, along with the rest of whose 

 collection it was ultimately purchased by Baron d'Hamonville. 



