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the financial position of the Kite-Fund, showing- that the 

 expenses of the previous year had exceeded the sum in 

 hand by £8. He made a fresh appeal for further subscrip- 

 tif)ns for 1906, which was cordially responded to by the 

 members present. 



Mr. Meade- Waldo further remarked that owing- to the zeal 

 of Dr. Salter and the kind co-operation of the landlords, 

 and of some other gentlemen, who had warmly taken the 

 matter up, two pairs of Kites had succeeded (for the first 

 time in ten years, it was believed) in successfully bringing 

 off their broods of two young ones each. It was now 

 possible to save from extermination in this country the last 

 remaining pairs of this grand bird. Lord CaAvdor had 

 built a hut for a watcher so close to one nest that it was a 

 matter of surjjrise that the Kites had continued their nest- 

 ing operations, and had reared their young ones, although 

 a watcher and his dog were continually within fifty 

 yards. 



It was unanimously agreed that letters of thanks from 

 the members of the British Ornithologists' Club sliould be 

 addressed to Earl Cawdor, Mr. Campbell Davys, and Dr. 

 J. H. Salter, exj)ressing their warm appreciation of the 

 liiglily successful efforts which had been made to protect 

 the Kite in South "Wales. 



Mr. HowAKD Saunders, on behalf of Mr. E. C. Arnold, of 

 Eastbourne College, Eastbourne, exhibited the following- 

 birds : — 



Pratincola maura (Pall.), the Eastern representative 

 of the Stonechat (P. rubicola) of Western and Southern 

 Europe. Increased blackness was the principal character- 

 istic of this form, which ranges from the extreme east of 

 Europe, through Asia, to Japan. The example exhibited 

 was shot by Mr. Arnold's brother near Cloy, Norfolk, on 

 September 2nd, 1904. 



Emheriza aureola, the Yellow-breasted Bunting, shot by 

 Mr. E. C. Arnold near Cley on 21st September, 1905. From 



