77 [Vol.xlii. 



Down, same colour as basal portion of feathers, paler 

 immediately above the calamus. 



Feathers and down similar to those of the Golden-Eye 

 [B. danguld) and Barrow's Golden-Eye (JB. islandica), but 

 smaller and paler in colour. 



Mr. Bunyard also called attention to spurious down and 

 feathers sometimes received with perfectly genuine eggs 

 from America, and as an illustration exhibited two plaques 

 of mounted feathers and down, which had been received by 

 collectors as belonging to B. alheola ; these were much too 

 large, and had a white calamus instead of a grey one which 

 he had found characteristic in the feathers of B. alheola. 

 The spurious feathers and down mentioned probably belonged 

 to B. islandica. 



A clutch of twelve eggs taken by Mr. C. B. Horsbrugh 

 was also exhibited. The eggs were found in a hollow stump 

 18 feet from the ground. On May 7th of the same year a 

 clutch of six Saw-Whet Owls {Nyctala) was taken from the 

 same hole. 



