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recordin the ‘ Birds of Hampshire’ of a clutch of four taken 
on June 2nd, 1884, and also a clutch of five in June 1894. 
As regards the date of the Irish clutch, May 31st, he did 
not consider this too early for Ireland, because he found that 
other species bred at least 10 to 14 days earlier there than 
in England, he referred especially to the Grasshopper 
Warbler and Common Bunting. 
The Rev. F. C. R. Jourpary, referring to Mr. Bunyard’s 
statement that he could tell Hobbies’ from Kestrels’ eggs in 
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, produced a case of eggs 
of these two birds, and asked Mr. Bunyard to identify them. 
Mr. Bunyard at first said he would do so if he might be 
allowed to take them home for a week, weigh them, and 
examine them by daylight, but upon Mr. Jourdain agreeing 
to allow him to do this, he declined to have anything to do 
with them. 
Mr. Bunyarp re-exhibited the eggs which illustrated his 
paper on Scratches and Abrasions in Eggs, published in the 
November number of the ‘ Bulletin.’ 
He said that Mr. Jourdain’s statement that scratches on 
eggs in most cases were caused by the bird when turning 
them, or by the claws when settling down to brood or on 
leaving the nest, could not possibly hold good as far as those 
scratches are concerned to which he had ‘specially called 
attention, which could only have been made while the eggs 
were held firm—. e¢., at birth as suggested by Newton, and 
before the pigment had become set. If they had been made as 
Mr. Jourdain suggested, the eggs in a clutch of Capercaillie 
would not all be scratched practically in the same position, 
and a bird while turning the egg would not always turn 
them by the same part, neither would it be able to exert 
sufficient pressure to scratch them so deeply, or so regularly, 
or in the same direction. 
Mr. Bunyard said he had discussed the question as to 
whether it was possible for the bird to reach the cloaca with 
the claws, with several members of the Club who belong to 
