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small gul), not worth stufEiifif. I immediately called at tlie boy's home, when I was 

 told I should have it when the boy came in, he being from home when I called: iu 

 about an hour it was brought to me with both wings cut off close to the body, with an 

 opening in the breast, and in a very dirty slate, but by dint of much washing and 

 sewing on the wings I have made a tolerable specimen of it. The person who shot it 

 tells me there were a dozen or more flying about the mouth of the harbour at the same 

 time, but, as he is altogether ignorant of Ornithology, I cannot vouch for the fact, but 

 I do not think he would intentionally misinform me: he says he thought they were 

 sea-swallows. — Stephen Clogg. 



Kiltiwake Gull in Faversham Creek. — On the 10th of November I received a good 

 male specimen of the kiltiwake gull, which was shot by a man iu the creek. — 

 A. Skinner. 



Iceland Gull in Kingstown Harbour, Count]/ Dublin. — December II, 1868. I have 

 recorded the occurrence of an Iceland gull in this harbour on the 10th,bul must record 

 anmher to-day, noticed whilst walking on the West Pier: ills an older and much 

 whiierbird than that last recorded. " It is a very rare species in Ireland; but two have 

 occurred there " (Morris's ' British Birds '). Perhaps thirty have occurred to myself oflF 

 the coast of Diibliu in the last six years. — //. Blake-Knox. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 January 4, 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: — 

 'Transactions of the Linnean Society,' V^ol. xxvi.. Part 2; 'Journal of the Linnean 

 Society,' Zoology, No. 44 : presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the lloyal 

 Society,' No. 104 ; by the Society. 'Memoiresde la Socieie de Physique et d'His- 

 toire Naturelle de Geneve,' V^ol. xix.. Part 2 ; by the Society. Hewiison's ' Exotic 

 Butterflies,' Part 69 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' The Entomologist's Annual,' for 

 1869; by the Editor. Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 25 ; by the Autiior. 'The 

 Zoologist,' for January ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' for 

 January; by the Editors. 



By purchase :— Gemminger and Von Flarold, ' Catalogus Coleoplerorura,' Vol. ii. 



Election of Members. 

 W. F. Kirby, Esq., Assistant in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society 

 (previously an Annual Subscriber), and E. Holdswovlh, Esq.,of Shanghai, were elected 

 ^1 embers. 



Exhibitions, cj-c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two diminutive specimens of Vanessa Urticce, about half the 

 usual size of the butterfly; they were two out of fifty or moie dwarfs, not all of the 

 same brood of larvae, which, owing probably to the extreme beat of 1868, had been 



