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The Members of the B. 0. C. who exhibited specimens 

 of egrgs were as follows : — 



E. BiDWELL 



p. Crowley . . 

 H. E. Dresser 



E. A. S. Elliot . 

 W. Graham . . 



J. A. Harvie-Brown 



H. J. Pearson . . 



F. Penrose . . . 

 Eobert H. Bead . 

 Savile G. E-eid . 

 C. Rothschild 

 "VY. Rothschild . 

 C. Stonham . . 



The following gentlemen^ iioii-members of the B. O. C., 

 had kindly sent : — 



Cuckoos'. 



Fosterers'. 



158 



49 



71 



37 



17 



13 



9 



6 



7 



5 



3 



1 



. 12 



2 



. 19 



11 



. 36 



25 



. 46 



29 



3 



2 



. 99 



24 



. 16 



10 



W. M. Crowfoot . . ; . . . 



H. Massey . . . . 1 . . . 275 



J. A. Norton . . . 1 . . . 126 



Cuckoos'. Fosterers'. 

 . 22 13 



50 

 30 



The total number of eggs of 

 and the accompanying clutches 

 of foster-parents. 



the Cuckoo exhibited was 919, 

 of eggs represented 76 species 



Mr. E. Hartert, at Mr. Bidweirs request, had prepared a 

 few notes on the recent obsiervations of Dr. E. Rey^ and 

 read the following remarks :— ;- 



*' The majority of ornitholtjgists had been of opinion that 

 Cuculus canorus lays only a small number of eggs, i. e. 5 to 7 

 or so, and that a number of days ^a "^veek or so) passes between 

 the laying of one q^'^ and its follower. The work of Dr. E. 

 Rey ' Altes und neues aus rlem Haushalte des Kuckuks, 

 1892,^ supposing his observo tions to be correct, exploded 

 the^e theories entirely. Dr. Rey came to many definite 

 conclusions, of which the folli )wing were the most important 

 ones ; — 



