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stated that it was almost identical in measurements and weight 

 with a normally coloured egg of a Cuckoo found by himself 

 in the nest of a Sedge- Warbler {Acrocephalus phragmilis), 

 and he believed the present specimen to be correctly ideutitied, 

 although he had not previously seen an egg of the same type. 

 Dr. Hartert stated that the egg of the Cuckoo had been 

 found in a Goldcrest's nest by Dr. Baldamus and others, and 

 that a young Cuckoo had been found in the nest of the 

 Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus) . If the present egg was really 

 that of a Cuckoo, it bore a remarkable resemblance to the 

 eggs of itshostj but if not, Dr. Hartert did not know to what 

 other bird it could be attributed, 



Mr. Read also exhibited a nest of the Long-tailed Tit 

 {^githalus roseus), which he had found filled with water 

 after a heavy storm. The feathers forming the thick lining 

 rendered the nest perfectly watertight, and numbered no less 

 than 952. They were all feathers of the domestic Fowl and 

 must have been procured from the nearest farmyard, which 

 was about a third of a mile distant. 



On behalf of Mr. Alwin Haagneh, of Modderfontein, 

 Transvaal, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited the undescribed or 

 rare eggs of several South African birds. 



The eggs will be fully described and figured in the first 

 number of the Journal of the South African Ornithologists' 

 Union, iii. (1907). Mr. Haagner had forwarded the following 

 notes : — 



"1. Telephonus tchagra (Vieill.). 



'' Mr. Robert Ivy, of Grahamstown, some months ago sent 

 me several clutches of eggs of this bird. The eggs are white, 

 irregularly marked with pale brown and purplish-grey streaks^ 

 which are in some specimens sparsely, in others thickly 

 distributed. They measure roughly 2rt'5 x 19 mm. and 

 28x19 mm. 



"2. Telephonus australis (Smith). 



" I took a nest with three eggs on the Crocodile River, 

 about five miles north of Commando Nek, in the Magalies- 



