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8. Yellow Wag'tairs nest. '^ -o 



9. Waterhen's nest. [ -.n- -, 



-, -, r. -■ • • , Marshy 



10-14. Reed- Warbler feeding- its young. I "K" t 



15-16. Little Grebe on its nest. J 



17. Yonno- of Common Tern. ) -r, i^/r ^ 



.^ ,^ .T.,,-, rr. - Komney Marsn. 



18. Young- of Little Tern. \ 



19. Sand-Martin's nesting-lioles. 



20. Short-eared Owl's nest with young. 



21. Shoveler's nest. ) 



22. Water-Eail's nest. ' ^^^^'^^^^• 



23. Great Crested Grebe's nest. 

 24-28. Bearded Tit Feeding its young. 



Mr. H. B. Booth sent the following slides to illustrate 

 the life-history of the cominon Cuckoo : — 



1. Nest of Meadow-Pipit, containing three eggs and 



one Cuckoo's egg. 



2. The same nest, showing young Cuckoo about tliree 



days old, with two J^oung Meadow-Pipits and an 

 addled egg thrown out of the nest. 



3. The same young Cuckoo when eight days old. 



4. The same when fourteen days old, the young- 



Cuckoo being now too big for the nest, which 

 might be seen behind the bird. 



In the absence of Dr. E. A. Wilson, who wa.s 

 unfortmiately unable to be present, Mr. W. P. Pyckaft 

 exhibited a number of the magnificent slides taken b}^ 

 the members of the " Discovery " Antarctic Expedition, 

 1901-1904. A list of these slides, which had already been 

 shown at the meeting held on the 15th March, 1905, will 

 be found in the Bull. B.O.C., XV., no. cxiv., p. 59 (1905). 



Mr. E. BiuwELL showed slides lent hy Mr. Thomas Tait, 

 Broomend, Liverurie, Aberdeenshire. 



1. Curlew on its nest. 



2. Young Curlew in down. 



8. Eider-Duck's nest and eggs. 



4. Young of the Eider-Duck in down. 



