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Mr. Cliffokd Borrer and Mr. G. K. Baynks showed a 

 good series o£ Linnets' eggs, the erythristic type o£ the 

 Crossbill (Muir of Ord, Ross.), and a rare type of the 

 Yellow-Hammer (Clay, Norfolk). 



Mr. W. Norman May exhibited a fine series of Corn- 

 Bunting, taken by himself in Berkshire. 



Mr. H. M. Wallis showed some interesting eggs, 

 including North African Greenfinch, North African Chaf- 

 finch, Mealy Redpoll (Norway), Tree-Sparrow (Sutherland), 

 Canary (Teneriffe), Serin (Pyrenees), Saharan House- 

 Bunting (El Kantara), Italian Sparrow (Varese), Brambling 

 (two fine sets from Dovrefeld). 



Mr. H. Massby exhibited the following eggs : — 



(a) A fine series of Hawfinch, including the rare blue- 

 grounded and creamy-buff types ; also a set with Cuckoo. 



(b) Eight sets of Bullfinch, including a Cuckoo set. 



(c) Six picked sets of Greenfinch : one white set, one 

 blue, and one with Cuckoo. 



{d) Series of Goldfinch, including a self-blue set and a 

 Cuckoo set. 



{e) Wonderful series of thirty Chaffinch sets, including 

 some rare phases. 



(/) Twite, twelve sets, including white eggs and a 

 Cuckoo set. 



(g) Series of Leaser Redpoll, Mealy Redpoll, Hoary 

 Redpoll, and Greenland Redpoll. 



(h) Set of Snowfinch. 



Mr. E. T. Crosoer showed a series of Yellow-Hammer 

 eggs from Kent and Essex. Among these was an extra- 

 ordinary clutch of four, taken by the exhibitor near 

 Chelmsford in May 1920. The ground-colour was " Bull- 

 finch " blue with faint underlying lilac markings and 

 surface-spots, and lines of sepia and sienna. 



