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breasted merganser, aud also a very perfect winter-plumaged gray phahuope. It may 

 be remarked iLat the goldeneyes that appear in ibe far west after and during severe 

 weather are in tlie proportion of forty out of fifty in the female plumage, or perhaps ia 

 the plumage of the first year of each sex. I observed one this week in perfectly adult 

 plumage. I have not seen any shovellers or pintails. A male merlin, in that beauti- 

 ful state of plumage known as the "stone falcon," was killed on the ground of the 

 Hon, and Kev. Stephen Lawley, at Trevalyn, near Penzance, this vieek.— Edward 

 Hearle Rodd ; Penzance, February 19, 1870. 



Sclavonian Grebes, Rednecked Grebe and Goosander on the Taw.— Durino- the 

 severe weather from the 10th to the 17th of February, the following birds shot o'L the 

 Taw by one of the river pilots were brought to the birdstuffer at Barnstaple; three 

 Sclavonian grebes, one rednecked grebe aud one goosundev.— Murray A. Ma thew ; 

 Weston-super-Mare, February 21, 1870. 



Wei(,/U of Snipe.— HAvlug seen in the ' Field ' lately a great many accounts of the 

 weight of snipe, I may mention that I have frequently found three snipe to weigh 

 down a pound (sixteen ounces), and out of one day's bag I have found at times two or 

 three sets of three snipe lo do this.— ' Field ' January 22, 1870. 



Hooper at St. Asaph, North Wales.— A fine specimen of the hooper or whistling 

 swan was shot on Thursday last, 30ih of December, on the waters of the river Clwyd, 

 by Robert LI. Jones, of Si. Asaph. It measured from head to tail four feet ten inches' 

 in the expanse of wings seven feet four inches, and weighed fifteen pounds.— Id. 



Proceedings of the Entomological SociExr. 



Fehruanj 7, 1870.— Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., &c., President, iu 

 the chair. 



]\Ir, Wallace expressed his thanks to the Society for electing him to succeed 

 Mr. Bates in the oflace of President ; and nominated as his Vice-Presidents for 

 the year, Mr. Bates, Major Parry and Mr. Pascoe. 



Additions to the Library. 



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



' Horse Societatis Entomologicas Eossicae,' vols. iii. — vi. ; presented by the 

 Society. ' BuUettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana,' vol. i., part 4 ; by 

 the Society. 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 47; by the 

 Society. 'Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Cluh,' No. 9 ; by the Club. 

 Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies,' No. 73 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. Newman's 

 ' Entomologist,' vol. iv, ; by the Editor. ' La Phylloxera et la nouvelle maladie 

 de la Vigue,' by J. E. Planchon and J. Lichtenstein ; by the Authors. 



By purchase :—' The Record of Zoological Literature,' 1868 (the entomo- 

 logical part); Gemminger and Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum,' vol. vi. 



