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33' N., on the 24th of June, 1896, voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert/ 

 In that instance the female had been shot from the nest. 

 The other egg recorded in the ' Catalogue of Birds^ Eggs/ ii. 

 p. 52 (1902), as " Iceland (IF. Proctur), Seebohm Coll.," was 

 without any certain data, and, even if the identification was 

 correct, the locality was probably erroneous. The two other 

 eggs received from the Crowley Bequest, after the second 

 volume of the ' Catalogue of Birds' Eggs ' had been issued, 

 were equally open to doubt — one being of unknown origin, 

 while the other was said to have been taken at '' Lancaster 

 Sound, Wollaston Land, by Singleton Stewart of Enter- 

 })rise." Lancaster Sound is not near Wollaston Land, and 

 "Enterprise" might refer to H.M.S, 'Enterprise^ or a town 

 in Canada. 



The eggs shown by Mr. Bunyard were evidently quite 

 unauthentic, and therefore of little value. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith said that he had received a letter 

 from Sir William Ingram, stating that he had just received 

 a repor,t on the Birds of Paradise (Paradisea apoda) which 

 he liberated on the Island of Little Tobago in the West 

 Indies in 1909. There was no doubt that some of the 

 birds had bred, and this year four young birds had been 

 reared. The male birds were this year (1915) showing their 

 side-plumes for the first time, which appeared to prove that 

 they did not attain their adult plumage until the seventh 

 year at least. 



Sir William Ingram believed that he had now on the 

 island ten or twelve adult males, five or six adult females, 

 and at least five young birds, four of which had been 

 hatched this year. 



It was interesting to observe that the birds had bred 

 while still in immature plumage. 



The Chairman said that it was very interesting to hear 

 that the Paradisea apoda on Little Tobago had bred in 

 immature plumage, and that they were only now in their 

 eighth year assuming their fully adult dress. It was, how- 



