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bed of the Oued Rliir to Miaier, on the western edge of 

 a series of Chotts below sea-level, and so on to Biskra, 



]\riss E. L. Turner showed a very interesting series of 

 photographs, of which the following may be specially 

 mentioned: — Long-eared Owl nesting on the ground 

 Moorhens courting; Lapwings bathing; Redshanks ieedinji 

 Herons in flight; Eider-Ducks and Sheld-Ducks bathing 

 Terns playing. 



Mr. R. H. Read showed a number of photographs of • 

 birds with their nests and eggs, taken in Norway and 

 Sweden. 



Miss Maud ILaviland exhibited a series of about thirty 

 very beautiful slides, of which the following are deserving 

 of special notice: — Peewits challenging; Jackdaws bathing; 

 Studies of Shovelers ; Little Stint ; Grey Phalarope ; 

 Turnstones ; Black-throated Divers ; Kittiwukes and 

 Guillemots on the Bass Rock ; Red-necked Phalaropes ; 

 Black-headed Gulls robbing a nest of Sandwich Terns ; 

 Courtsi)ip of the Common Gull ; Red-throated Divers ; 

 Oyster-catchers ; and Eider-Ducks. 



Mr. K. J. Acton Davis followed with another fine series 

 of pictures of sea and land birds. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith showed a few slides, taken in the 

 Zoological Gardens last April, of Ruffs and the Great 

 Bustard in display. 



Captain Colling wood Ingram, who was unable to be 

 present, sent two slides, illustrating the difference in the 

 coloui'-pattern of nestlings of the Common and Lesser Terns, 

 together with the following notes (kindly communicated by 

 Mr. Talbot-Ponsonby) : — 



" During a recent visit to the breeding-haunts of the 

 Common and Lesser Terns, I was greatly impressed by 

 the striking differences in the eolour-pattern to be found 

 in the downy young of these two species. In the chick of 



