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berg Range (Pretoria District). They are as described by 

 Eriksson, who is the only collector who has previously 

 procured eggs of this species. I shot the male bird from the 

 nest, and so made the identification certain. The nest was 

 placed in a small scraggy bush about two feet from the ground, 

 and was a neatly made cup-shaped structure o£ rootlets. 



''3, CossYPHA BicoLOR (Sparrm.). 



"I have seen four or five clutches of these eggs ; they 

 are all of a clear chocolate-colour and very glossy, and not, 

 as Major Sparrow describes them (Joiirnal S. A. O. U. vol. i. 

 p. 14), of a dark olive-green. Both my friends, Messrs. 

 Robert and Roy Ivy, assure me that they have repeatedly 

 taken the nest from which the bird had flown, and that their 

 identification was absolutely certain. 



"4. MoNTicoLA EXPLORATOR (VieilL). 



"The Messrs. Ivy assure me that Stark^s description of 

 these eggs is quite correct, and that Major Sparrow's blue 

 eggs must be either a ' sport' or a case of mistaken identity. 

 I have seen several clutches of eggs and they all agree with 

 Dr. Stark's description. 



" 5. Irr[sor viridis (Licht.). 



" The eggs of this bird are invariably covered with tiny 

 white spots (which are in reality pores), a fact which has 

 not been previously noted." 



Mr. R. B. Lodge (introduced by Mr. G. E. Lodge) ex- 

 hibited some extremely good photographs illustrating the 

 nesting of a colony of Dalmatian Pelicans {Pelecanus crispus) 

 in Albania. 



Mr. P. F. BuNYARD (introduced by Mr. H. E. Dresser) 

 exhibited a pair of the Grey-headed Wagtail {Motacilla 

 hurealis) with their nest and eggs. They had been found 

 breeding in a marsh between Rye and Lydd on the 20th 

 June, 1906, and had been taken by Mr. Bristow, of 

 St. Leonard's-on-Sea, who had also, on a previous occasion^ 



