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permission of the Members of the Club to send the MS. to 

 press. This was unanimously agreed to. 



Dr. E,. BowDLER Sharpe exhibited an adult male speci- 

 men of the American Wigeon (Mareca americand), which 

 had been shot by Mr. E. M. Corbett on the Island of Ben- 

 becula, Hebrides, on the 3rd January, 1907. There was 

 every reason to suppose that this specimen was a wild bird. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited heads of the Pink- 

 footed Goose {Anser hrachyrhynchus) and of the Bean-Goose 

 (Anser arvensis), which had been shot by Mr. H. L. Pop- 

 ham off the coast of Holland. He pointed out that in both 

 species the amount of black on the bill varied greatly in 

 extent in examples shot out of the same flock ; but he con- 

 sidered that this difference was entirely caused by age, the 

 nearly black-billed birds being the young. 



Mr. C. B. Ticehurst exhibited a male and a female of 

 the Black Lark \^Melanocorypha yeltoniensis (Forst.)], a 

 species new to the British Avifauna, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



" The male, which was in company with another male and 

 two females, was shot by Mr. Sargeant at Sewers Bridge, 

 near Pevensey, Sussex, on Jan. 29th, 1907. Thinking it 

 was a variety of the Skylark, he sent it to Mr. Bristow, 

 taxidermist, of St. Leonards, and the latter received it by post 

 on Jan. 31. It was brought to me for examination in the flesh, 

 but, unfortunately, I was out, and I did not see it till the 

 following day, when it was mounted and in the braces. It 

 is an adult male in winter plumage. The female was brought 

 to me in the flesh on Feb. 2, 1907, by Mr. Bristow, who had 

 just received it by post from Lydd, Kent, where it had been 

 shot on Jan. 31st. It was accompanied by a male and two 

 females, and the man who shot it aimed at the male bird as 

 being a stranger to him, but the shot killed the female. 



" Since these two were obtained, I hear from my brother 

 that another male was shot at Lydd, Kent, on Feb. 18th, and 



