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males which corresponded exactly with mine. All these 

 had been collected in Egypt during the spring. The recog- 

 nition of this subspecies is of great geographical interest, 

 for judging from the dates at which some of these birds 

 were procured (viz. April 17th and May 5th), and from 

 observations made by Dr. Parrott in Egypt, it seems probable 

 that there is a subspecies of Wagtail whose breeding-area is 

 restricted to the Nile Delta. For more definite observations 

 on the range of this species we must look to the ornitho- 

 logists who are resident in Egypt.^^ 



Dr. Penrose, on behalf of Mr. A. T. Napier of Holkham, 

 exhibited an immature female example of the Yellow-breasted 

 or Willow-Bunting {Emberiza aureola, Pallas). The bird 

 had been shot on the Salt Marshes at Wells, Norfolk, 

 on September 5th, 1907, by Patrick Cringle, the son of 

 one of Lord Leicester's watchers. This was the second 

 record of this species in the British Isles. 



The first, also an immature female, was shot at Cley, 

 Norfolk, on September 21st, 1905, by Mr. E. C. Arnold, 

 of Eastbourne College, and was exhibited by Mr. Howard 

 Saunders to the Members of the Club [c/. Bull. B. O. C. xvi. 

 no. cxvii. p. 10 (1905)]. The specimen shown agreed very 

 closely with some skins in the British Museum, but had a 

 darker bill. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe, who had examined the specimen, 

 said that he had no doubt this bird had been correctly 

 identified. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain made the following remarks : — 

 " A very careful study of the flight of the Grifi'on Vulture, 

 which I was enabled to make at close quarters in 1906, 

 brought to light one very puzzling phenomenon. During 

 certain phases of flight the two outermost primaries appeared 

 to have a much more upward or vertical direction than the 

 rest. 



" During the early part of the present year I was able 



