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l)reeds in the Canaries I am unable to say ; the little island 

 of Alegranza Avould be a most likely spot, but I believe it 

 has never yet been visited in the breeding-season. 



"According to Mr. Meade-Waldo_, Larus cachinnans un- 

 doubtedly breeds in most of the islands^ and I see no reason 

 why Larus fuscus should not do so also." 



Mr. H. J. Elwes gave a brief account of his recent 

 journey to Formosa and said that the remarkable resem- 

 blance between the birds of the mountains of that island 

 and those of the Sikkim Himalaya to which he had called 

 attention long ago in a paper in the ' Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society/ 1873, p. 666, was abundantly confirmed. 

 Though owing to the hostility of the aborigines in the 

 northern half of the island he had been unable to explore 

 that part of it^ yet he had seen enough of the mountains of 

 the centre and south to realize the difiicul ties" which attended 

 the collector, owing to the dense undergrowth and absence 

 of paths in the virgin forests. As his time was mainly 

 devoted to botanical observations and forestry, he had only 

 made a small collection of birds, which, however, included 

 an example of a Mower-pecker (Dicauni forniosum) described 

 at the last Meeting of the Club from a specimen sent home 

 by Mr. Goodfellow. He had spent a few days close to the 

 camp which had been formed by that gentleman at an 

 altitude of about 7000 feet in a dense forest of cypress, 

 near which the remarkable Mikado Pheasant was found. 

 After great patience and difficulties with the aborigines 

 who snared them, Mr. Goodfellow had succeeded in getting 

 a small number of both sexes alive, which he was now 

 bringing home, along with living specimens of Swinhoe's 

 Pheasant. As most of the bird-skins collected had not 

 yet arrived, he was unable to exhibit them, but he might 

 have some further remarks to make at a future Meeting of 

 the Club. 



Mr. Clifford Borrer exhibited a clutch of eggs of the 

 Grecnshauk (Tutanus nebularius) taken in the Northern 



