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much exercised. Irby paid me a visit at the Den. Dined at 

 Zoological Club dinner at Grosvenor Restaurant at 6 p.m. Flower, 

 Sclater, A. Newton, Giinther, Dresser, O. Salvin, Saunders, Grote, 

 Holdsworth, Forbes, Dobson, Hamilton, another, Waterhouse, and 

 self. Meeting afterwards at n, Hanover Square. Tristram exhibited 

 a very fine skin, and some eggs of the African darter (Plotus 

 levaillanti) from the Lake of Antioch, Newton a specimen of rustic 

 bunting (Emberiza rustled) shot in Yorkshire, and Sclater a stuffed 

 glossy ibis (Plegadis falrinellus) shot last September in Hampshire. 

 Several interesting papers read one relating to a splendid humming- 

 bird (Loddigesia nrirabilis) from Peru, of which specimens were 

 exhibited. 



November \%th. Thick, chilly fog. I went up by appointment 

 to British Museum at 12, where Giinther met me, and showed me 

 the groups of British birds, with nests and eggs, of which he is 

 very justly proud. He also showed me an extraordinary tree-frog 

 from South America, with perfectly developed young in a bag in 

 its back. 



November i8///. Fine bright day after heavy rain in the night. 

 I went hunting for some pleasant cage bird in the Seven Dials district, 

 but found nothing that particularly took my fancy. Sabin has a fine 

 white blackbird and a young mocking bird (Mimus polyglottis). 



November zoth. Notice in Field of Stone Curlew (CEdicnenms 

 crepitans), shot at Gayton, near Northampton, October z8th. This is a 

 rare bird in agro northantoniense. 



November zyd. Very fine and bright. Paul Mollen called on 

 his way back from Valkenswaard to Lilford, bringing two ash-coloured 

 shrikes alive for me, which have been used at the huts for catching 

 the hawks. 



November z^th. The shrikes are very wild, but feed well. 



November z6fh. Irby and Edward Acheson called at Den, and 

 I went with former in a cab to Leadenhall Market. Castang has a 

 young male Bonelli's eagle (Pseudaetus bonelli, g, juv.), two, lanners (Falco 

 feldeggi], and a young night heron (Nyticorax griseus). Great quantities 

 of capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) in the market, also some black game 



