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C. D. Ingram, Hubert Ingram, T. H. Just, Sir E. G. 

 LoDER, Bart., R. Loder, A. C. Lyell, C. C. Macrae, 

 G. Meade-Waldo, Hon. E. S. Montagu, M.P., H. C. Neale, 

 C. S. Neaves, W. M. Page, R. Hooper Pearson, A. R. Pym, 

 Alexander Reid, S. Ricardo, D. N. Seth-Smith, M. C. 

 Seton, E. Stanford, H. Stevens, Miss E. L. Turner, 

 H. Warrand, W. H. Watney, Thomas Wells, A. J. 

 Williams. 



Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited an egg of the Great Auk 

 {Plautus impennis) the existence of which he had recorded in 

 ' The Ibis,' 1900, p. 694. Since that date he had been informed 

 by Lady Greville Smyth, to whom the egg belonged, that 

 the late Sir Greville Smyth had purchased many years ago 

 a hox of sea-birds' eggs from Mann of Clifton, and on 

 looking through them had found the egg exhibited. It 

 had been placed in a box for more careful examination, 

 but had been lost sight of until 1900. 



Mr. H. L. PoPHAM exhibited a remarkable buff-coloured 

 female example of the Wigeon (JMareca penelope), which had 

 been shot by himself off the coast of Holland in January 

 1912. He said that variation in plumage seemed to be very 

 rare among Ducks of this species, for in the course of his 

 wild-fowling career he had shot, or helped to shoot, nearly 

 four thousand Wigeons and had never before met with any 

 except normally coloured birds. In the specimen exhibited 

 the bill and legs were of the usual colour. 



The following lantern-slides were then shown : — 



Dr. N. F. Ticehurst exhibited the following slides of 

 birds from photographs taken by himself, in S.W. Kent, in 

 the summers of 1910 and 1911 : — 



1-5. Nuthatch {Sitta ccesia) entering a nesting-box with 

 food for its young. 



6, 7. Five young Nuthatches, three-parts fledged. 



8-10. Female Nightingale {Philomela luscinia) approach- 

 ing its nest with food for its young. 

 11-13. Female Nightingale feeding its young and 



