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The Chairman made the following- announcement: — 

 " The Committee have considered it advisable to raise the 

 entrance fee of the Club to the sum of one pound (£1) for all 

 candidates elected after this date. The yearly subscription 

 will remain at five shilling-s." 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a male Eider sent by 

 Mr. H. W. Robinson, of Lansdowne House, Lancaster, and 

 shot on December 7th, 1905, near Stromness, Orkney. 

 The bird, which showed a well-defined but not very black 

 V-shaped mark on the throat, was undoubtedly an example 

 of Soinateria moUissima, as jjroved by an examination of 

 the large series of Eiders in tlie Natural History Museum. 

 An exactly similar variety had been procured by Mr. 

 Abel Chapman on Holy Island, and was recorded in 

 1905 (cf. Bull. B.O.C.,*XV., no. cxv., p. 69). A red- 

 brown female, exhibited at the same time, on behalf of 

 Mr. F. Smalley, and shot in Orkney in February, 1905, 

 was considered to be a Common Eider, aged about eight 

 months . 



Mr. RusKiN BuTTERPiELD exhibited a specimen of the 

 Wall-Creeper {Tichodroma muraria) which had been shot 

 while climbing about the face of the cliff at Ecclesbourne, 

 near Hastings, on the 26th December, 1905. The bird — a 

 female — was taken to Mr. G. Bristow, of St. Leonards, 

 and was shown by him to Mr. Butterfield before it Avas 

 skinned. 



Three previous occurrences of this bird in England had 

 been made known, namely : (1) An example shot at Stratton- 

 Strawless, Norfolk, 30th October, 1 792 [cf . Marsham and 

 White, Trans. Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc, II., pp. 180, 184, 

 188 (1870)] ; (2) an example obtained at Sabden, Lanca- 

 shire, 8th May, 1872 (cf. F. S. Mitchell, ZooL, s.s., p. 4839) ; 

 (3) an example, now in the collection of Canon H. B. 

 Tristram, shot at Winchelsea, Sussex [cf. Sharpe, Bull. 

 B.O.C., VI., no. xxxviii., p. 8 (189G).] Professor Newton, 



