xliii. 

 The meeting terminated at five p.m. 



During the month of March, 1888, the President's work, " The Birds of Dorset- 

 shire : a Contribution to the Natural History of the County," was published. It 

 is an octavo volume of 180 pages, bound in cloth, and illustrated with a 

 frontispiece giving a view of the Swannery at Abbotsbury, together with 

 woodcuts of various of the rarer birds which have been met with in the county. 

 The book was reviewed in the " Zoologist" for April, 1888. In the appendix, at 

 page 166, an account is given of the appearance of Montagu's Harrier at Winter- 

 bourne Kingston on the 24th of June, 1887, on the farm of Mr. E. Besent. The 

 bird was disturbed from its nest whilst a field of clover was being cut by a 

 machine, and subsequently the nest was found, containing four eggs. Later in 

 the summer two Harriers were, seen on the wing by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, 

 himself leisurely beating a stubble field within half-a-miie of Kingston. By the 

 generosity of the author, at whose sole expense the work was published, a copy 

 was presented to each of the members of the Field Club. 



