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(Diet. B.^ p, 986^ footnote^) had called attention to the 

 fact that Merrett had included the species in his list of 

 British birds in 1667, the passage being as follows : " Picus 

 niurarius, the Creeper, or Wall-Creeper, I. ib. Aid. i. 852. 

 G. 644." (Pinax Perum Naturalium Britanicaruni, 1667^ 

 p. 177.) 



Mr. P. C. Musters exhibited a well-mounted example 

 of the Dusky Thrush (Turdus f'iiscatus=T. duhius), which 

 had been shot by a market gardener named Mills near 

 Grunthorpe, in ISTottinghamshire, on October 13th^ 1905. 

 The bird had been taken to Pose, a bird-stufPer in 

 JSTottingham, who believed it to be a variety of the Field- 

 fare, but it was subsequently examined and recognised by 

 Mr. Musters and Mr. J. Whitaker. 



This is the first known instance of the occurrence of 

 this Thrush in the British Islands. 



Mr. W. E. Pefaut (on behalf of Mr. Alec Jones) ex- 

 hibited an admirably mounted male specimen of the Eire- 

 crested Wren {Regulus ignicapillus) , which had been obtained 

 at Wimbledon on the 31st December, 1905. 



The interest of the exhibit lay chiefly in the fact that it 

 was the first authenticated record for the county of 

 Surrey, the specimen having been seen in the flesh by the 

 exhibitor and Mr. James Sargent, another member of the 

 Club. 



Mr. W. P. Ogilvie-Gteant exhibited a male Eire- 

 crested Wren, which had been picked up in a dying con- 

 dition at Abbey Wood, Kent, on the 10th January, 1906, 

 and forwarded to the British Museum (Natural History) 

 by Mrs. A. G. Mitchell. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited an example of a new 

 subspecies of Groldcrest, which he described as follows : — 



Peuulus regulus interni, subsp. n. 



Differs from B. regulus regulus in having the hind-neck 



