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The two nests of C. falkensteini were built in shrubs 

 3 feet from the ground, and were similar in shape to those 

 already described, but rather larger and more loosely built, 

 about 5-5^ in. in height. Both nests showed a good deal 

 of vegetable down externally as well as in the lining. The 

 eggs were elongate in shape, four, averaging in size 

 16-1 X 10-8 mm., max. 16*4x11 and 16'lXll-3, min. 

 16xl0'5. The ground-colour was greyish-white, freckled 

 and marbled with greyish-brown ; the markings tending to 

 form a cap at the larger end. They were conspicuously 

 lighter than the eggs of C. mediocris. Fresh eggs were 

 taken on the 22nd of October and incubated eggs on the 

 26th of December. 



Two nests of Turdus elgonenis, Jackson, were also found 

 by Mr. Congreve. The first contained two much incubated 

 eggs (of which one was exhibited) on the 22nd of October, and 

 the second contained two eggs which hatched out on the 

 same day. The egg, which is not included in Nehrkorn^s 

 ' Katalog ' or in the British Museum collection, is like the 

 Common Black bird^s in appearance, having a light greenish- 

 blue ground, freckled and blotched with red-brown. Size, 

 29-2 X 21-1 mm. 



The Chairman called attention to'^the prospectus of 

 " Fanning Island Limited,^^ a new company formed for the 

 purpose of buying Fanning Island in the Pacific and 

 developing its supposed guano-beds and other resources, and 

 pointed out what an excellent opportunity it would afford 

 for a naturalist to visit such a little-known locality. The 

 birds known to inhabit this group of islands were as yet 

 very few in number, and amongst them was stated to be 

 the very rare Pacific Wader {Mchmorhynchus cancellatus) 

 lately figured by Mr. Rothschild in his ' Extinct Birds ' 

 (plate XXXV.). 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant remarked that he had recently drawn 

 up Lists of Birds requiring Protection in certain British 

 Colonies and Protectorates, which had been published by 



