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surface-markings normal, but mostly confined to the larger 

 end, the shell-markings pale grey and conspicuous. 



Blue Titmouse. {Parus caruleus.) Clutch of seven eggs 

 from Co. Wicklow. The surface-markings forming large 

 suffused blotches at the larger end ; colour normal. 



Common Snipe. {Gallinago gallinago.) Clutch of four 

 from Sweden, three of which showed distinct bluish-green 

 bands encircling the shell ; otherwise normal. 



Two other clutches of somewhat abnormally marked eggs 

 were also shown. 



Woodcock. {Scolopax rusticula.) A very handsome 

 clutch of four eggs from Co. Dublin, with the ground,-colour 

 rich light brown, very heavily marked at the larger end with 

 rich chocolate-brown ; the shell-markings almost absjBnt. 



Kedshank. {Totanus calidris.) A clutch with greenish 

 ground-colour. 



Greenfinch. {Chlorischloris.) Two somewhat abnormal 

 clutches, one containing an egg of the Cuckoo. 



Black-throated Diver. [Colymbus arcticus.) A clutch 

 of two eggs from Sweden. 



Bed-throated Diver. [Colymbus septentrionalis.) Clutch 

 of two eggs from Orkney. 



In both these clutches the eggs showed a distinct broad 

 green band encircling the smaller end of the shell. 



Colonel Stephenson Clarke exhibited two examples 

 of an abnormal variety of the House-Sparrow [Passer 

 domesticus). The upperparts were cinnamon-brown and the 

 underparts pale buff. He said that a nest had been found at 

 his home near Cuckfield in which all the young birds had 

 been similarly coloured. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited a male and female of the 

 Common Partridge [Perdix perdix) killed on the 19th 

 of April. He said that at the Meeting of the Club 

 held on the 13th of December, 191 1 [cj. Bull. B. O. C. 



