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perfectly witli south-eastern specimens, and their wings 

 measure 250 and 255 ram., thus comparing well with the 

 latter. That those from S.E. New Guinea were found over 

 a thousand miles from Arfak is no ar-gument. We in Triiig 

 have probably done more than most other ornithologists to 

 show that the different parts of Nevv Guinea have many 

 different subspecies, and that especially most of those from 

 S.E. New Guinea differ from those of Arfak. On the other 

 hand, we also know that many are absolutely indistinguish- 

 able. It is therefore impossible to say that a bird from 

 S.E. Papua must be different from one of Arfak, bat what 

 we have to do is to compare them, and then say whether 

 they are distinguishable or not. 



Mr. Cliffokd Borrer exhibited : — 



(a) An unusually small immature Dusky Redshank, shot 

 at Blbkeney in Norfolk, 1st Sept. 191G. 



{b) Skins of two Blackbirds shot on the Norfolk coast in 

 the month of November. Mr. Boner drew attention to 

 certain alleged differences between these migratory Black- 

 birds and the ordinary resident birds. The Chairman, 

 however, and some of the members present considered that 

 the specimens were merely backward birds of the year, which 

 were assuming adult plumage. 



(c) On behalf of Mr. W. Rowan, Mr. Borrer also exhi- 

 bited a clutch of five (originally six) ej;gs of the Oyster- 

 catcher, taken in Norfolk in 1916. These eggs were of a 

 rather uncommon dark brown grounded type, and almost 

 undoubtedly laid by the same female. Mr. Rowan stated 

 that he had watched the nest for six weeks (the eggs were 

 infirtile), and was quite clear in his o\ui mind as to this 

 point. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, M.A., exhibited a clutch of 

 e-ius of 



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PoRZANA ciNEREA BREViPES Ingram, Bull. B, 0. C. xxix. 

 p. 21. 



