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Two sets of eggs of the Sedge-Warbler {Acrocephalus 

 phragmitis) : — 



(1) A set of five eggs with white ground, black streaks 

 and mottled markings of light brown, Berks. 



(2) A set of four eggs with pale greenish-white ground 

 marked and spotted with darker greenish-brown, and with 

 shell-markings of pale purplish-blue. Berks. 



A set of three bright blue eggs of the Nightingale (Daulias 

 luscinia) : two eggs almost unmarked, the third with faint 

 reddish freckles. Taken on the bauks of the Guadalquiver, 

 in S. Spain, May 12th, 1906. The bird was seen on the 

 nest. 



A set of seven beautiful eggs of the Magpie {Pica pica). 

 Ground-colour bright green with greenish-brown markings. 

 The clutch contained two eggs of the Great Spotted Cuckoo 

 {Coccystes glandarius) of very different types, and obviously 

 laid by different individuals. Near Coria del Rio, S. Spain, 

 April 28th, 1906. 



All these eggs were taken by the exhibitor. 



Mr. P. F. BuNYARD exhibited a curious mottled semi- 

 albino example of the Greenfinch [Chloris chloris), which he 

 had presented to the Tring Museum. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited two examples (male and 

 female in full breeding-dress) and an egg of the very rare 

 Wader known as Pseudoscolopax taczanowskii (Verr.), and 

 made the following remarks : — 



" I am glad to be able to exhibit a pair of this rare bird, 

 known as the Siberian Snipe-billed Sandpiper {cf. Seebohm, 

 Monogr. Charadriidae, p. 399), v^^hich I have recently re- 

 ceived from Mr. S. A. Buturlin, They were obtained near 

 the small town of Tarainthe Tobolsk Government, Western 

 Siberia, on the 25th of May, 1908. Tara is on the 

 left bank of the Irtysh River, about 200 miles below Omsk. 

 Two local sportsmen were in a boat on the river, when 

 they saw two Waders, one of which was probing in the 

 mud like a Snipe. From their rusty-red plumage they were 



