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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGIST; 



.^ JUL 19 1917 

 No. CCXXVI. 



The two-hmidred-and-twenty-third Meeting of the Club was 

 held at Pagani's Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 

 W., on Wednesday, June 13th, 1917. 



Chairman : The Lord Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Members present : — E. E. Adams ; E.Bidwell ; S. Boor- 

 man ; P. F. Bunyard ; R. W. Chase ; Col. S, Clarke ; 

 A. Ezra ; J. Gerrard ; E. Gibson ; E. Hartert ; C. Ingram ; 

 G. C. Lambert; H. Munt ; F. G. Penrose; C. W. M. 

 Praed ; R. H. Read; C. B. Rickett ; W. L. Sclater ; 

 D. Seth-Smith {Editor) ; C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby {Hon. 

 Sec. 6f Treasurer) ; H. M. Wallis ; H. F. Witherby. 



Guests '. — W. Rowan ; R. W. Roylance. 



Mr. R. W. Chase exhibited a clutch of three Golden 

 Eaglets Eggs taken in Sutherlandshire, of abnormal shape, 

 being very elongated and narrow, the measurements were 

 as follows:— (1) 88-3 x 52-8 mm.; (2) 80-5 x 52-5 mm.; 

 (3) 81*5 X 548 mm. Two of the eggs were of a dirty- 

 white colour without markings, the other streaked and 

 mottled with reddish brown; also two had a number of 

 nodules on the sliells at one end, the other showing a curious 

 corrugation in the smallsr end, 



Mr. Chase also showed a clutch of three eggs of the 

 Black-headed Gull taken in Cumberland, of the rich dark 

 brown type, but unusually small, the measurements being 

 [June 26th, 1917.] vol. xxxvii. 



