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that this is a sign of youth, though the plumage is not 

 spotted like young Dioptrornis, but like that of adult birds. 

 " Iris hazel. Bill : base grey, tip black. Feet black.^' 

 Wing 82"5 mm. 



Hab. Eastern Congo Free State. 



Type in the Tring Museum : $ , Kabakaba, Eastern 

 Congo Free State, 5. ix. 1906, No. 408. C. F. Camburn coll. 



Mr. P. F. BuNYARD exhibited a series of eggs and nests 

 of the Linnet {Acanthis cannabina), Lesser Kedpoll [Acanthis 

 linaria carbaret) , a.nd Yellow Hammer {Emberiza citrinella), 

 and made the following remarks : — 



" At the June meeting of the Club Dr. Langton asked me 

 to identify two nests with eggs, one of which he thought 

 belonged to the Lesser Redpoll and the other to the Garden 

 Warbler. I had no difficulty, however, in identifying them 

 as belonging to the Linnet and Yellow Hammer; but, as 

 some Members disagreed with my decision, I promised to 

 bring up a series of each, with nests, in order, if possible, 

 to convince them and to strengthen my identification. 

 Dr. Langton has been kind enough to again bring up his 

 nests and eggs, and now that they are placed side by side 

 with my own exhibit it will be seen that the eggs of the 

 Lesser Redpoll are on the average much smaller than those 

 of the Linnet, and also that the ground-colour of the latter 

 is much paler and of quite a different shade, the greenish 

 tinge being more or less absent ; the nests of the two 

 species differ considerably, those of the Redpoll being much 

 the smaller, and the diameter of the interior at least half an 

 inch less. 



" The nest of the Linnet very rarely contains feathers 

 or vegetable down, whereas that of the Redpoll nearly 

 always does. In the series of Yellow Hammer there are 

 two clutches very much like those which Dr. Langton 

 exhibits and which he thought were Garden Warbler's, the 

 nest, however, is obviously not a Garden Warbler's.^' 



