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Miss E. L. Turner exlubited some very fine lantern-slides 

 illustrating the following subjects : — 



Series showing the growth of a nestling Blue Tit from 

 one to sixteen days old. 



Series showing various attitudes of the Peacock. 



Short-eared Owl sunning. 



Dipper, various attitudes. 



Ringed Plover. 



Great Black-backed Gull nesting. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull. 



Herring-Gulls, 



KiTTIWAKES. 



Common Gulls. 



Nest olc Shoveller Duck showing eggs covered, eggs 

 exposed, and the duck sitting. 

 Spotted Flycatcher. 

 Grey Wagtail. 

 Tree- Creeper. 

 Eobin. 

 Crossbill. 

 Ducks in the snow. 

 Goosander, drake and duck. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker showed a large series of very 

 beautiful slides illustrating the nests, eggs, and nesting- 

 sites of a number of Indian birds. Many of the photo- 

 graphs had been taken by Colonel Rattray and the others 

 by himself. 



Mr. J. H. Owen, who was unfortunately unable to be 

 present, kindly sent for exhibition a remarkable series of 

 some fifty slides illustrating the nest, eggs, and young 

 of the Sparrow-Hawk which had been taken by himself 

 with the help oi^ some of the boys at Felsted School. The 

 various stages of growth of the young birds, the parent 

 birds bringing food and sheltering the nestlings during 



