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B. O. Club held in the following April. [C/. Bull. B. O. C. 

 V. no. XXXV. p. xxxvii (1896).] 



Dr. ScLATER stated that it was well known that the Red- 

 breasted Goose [Bernicla rujicollis) occasionally visits Holland 

 in the winter, and that specimens of it are sometimes cap- 

 tured alive by the fowlers who supply Wild Geese to the 

 markets. On January 26th, 1906_, an example of this 

 beautiful species was taken in Oberyssel, and passed into 

 Mr. Blaauw^s fine collection of waterfowl at Gooilust, where 

 Dr. Sclater had had the pleasure of examining it. When the 

 bird arrived it was in immature plumage, but when seen last 

 July it was in nearly fully adult dress. The late Mr. Wester- 

 mann had at one time three specimens of this Goose in the 

 Amsterdam Gardens, all probably derived from a similar 

 source. The only living example of the Bed-breasted Goose 

 ever exhibited in this country was, so far as Dr. Sclater knew, 

 a female, received in 1858, which lived for several years in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens mated with a Bernicle Goose. 



Dr. ScLATEE also exhibited a photograph of the celebrated 

 picture by Hondecoeter (now in the Rijks Museum at 

 Amsterdam) called " The Floating Feather,^' in which a 

 Bed-breasted Goose was represented in the foreground, 

 indicating that this bird was well known in Holland at the 

 end of the 1 7th century. 



The Bev. James B. Hale stated that when staying in 

 Glen Lyon, Perthshire, he had found, on the 1st of June, 1906, 

 a Merlin [Falco cesalon) utilizing the last yearns nest of a 

 Hooded Crow in a tall Scotch fir-tree about 40 feet from the 

 ground. The hen bird had been shot by the keeper as she was 

 leaving the nest, which contained four much-incubated eggs. 



Mr. Bobert H. Bead exhibited a set of five eggs of the 

 Goldcrest {Regulus cristatus) taken by Mr. Stanley Lewis, 

 of Wells, Somerset. The nest also contained an egg supposed 

 to be that of a Cuckoo [Cuculus canorus). This egg was pure 

 white with very fine rust-red spots at the larger end. Mr. Bead 



