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Mr. M. J. NicoLL exhibited an example of a Bunting new 

 to the British Fauna^ and made the following remarks : — 



" I exhibit a male example of the South European Large- 

 billed Reed-Bunting, Emberiza pyr7'huloides palustris (Savi). 

 This bird was shot on Romney Marsh in Kent between Rye 

 and Lydd on the 26th of May, 1908, and was brought to 

 Mr. Bristow, of St. Leonardos. I examined it directly 

 after it had been mounted and while the feet were still soft. 

 This is the first time that an example of this subspecies has 

 been procnred in the British Islands. The typical form, 

 E. p. pyrrhuloides , Pall., has occurred on Heligoland." 



Dr. ScLATER called attention to the rare birds from 

 the shores of Kent and Sussex, which had been shown 

 at the recent meeting of the South-eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies at Hastings. Mr. G. Bristow (of 

 St. Leonard's) had exhibited 46 excellently mounted 

 specimens obtained in the district. Among these were 

 examples of Melanocorypha yeltoniensis (a pair), Lanius 

 nubicus, Motacilla melanocephala, Saxicola occidentalis , 

 jEgialitis vocifera, and Totanus solitarius, all of which had 

 already been exhibited at previous meetings of the Club. 

 Mr. T. Parkin had sent a selection of rare eggs from his 

 extensive collection. Amongst these were fine series of the 

 eggs of the Peewit, Guillemot, Sooty Tern, and Herring- 

 Gull, selected in order to show the great variation in colour 

 and pattern in each of these species, and a fine series of eggs 

 of different species of Tiuamous. Dr. N. F. Ticehurst had 

 sent a set of the species of birds supposed to be peculiar to 

 the British Isles, together with their representatives on the 

 Continent. The collection gave an admirable proof of the 

 activity and intelligence of the ornithologists of the Kentish 

 coast. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander exhibited and described examples 

 of a new species of Flycatcher from the neighbourhood of 

 Lake Chad : — 



