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Dr. Sharpe exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Ruskiu Butter- 

 field, the specimen of the Wall- Creeper [Tichodroma muraria) 

 described by Mr. Butterfield, in the 'Zoologist' for August 

 1896, as having been shot near Winchelsea. 



]Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Gran't exhibited a fine series of skins 

 of birds collected bv Mr. John Whitehead in the Philippines, 

 among them being example?i of the two new species of 

 Thrushes described in the cuneut number of ' The Ibis/ and 

 of the new Turnix wMtehea4i, described by him in the 

 second volume of his ' Handbook to the Game-Birds.'' 



Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh exhibited a specimen of Phyllo- - 

 Scopus viridanus shot by him^.elf on the oth of September 

 at North Cotes, Lincolnshire. This Asiatic species was 

 new to Great Britain, but had occurred three times on 

 Heligoland. 



Mr. L. BoNHOTE exhibited a series of skins of the Common 

 Linnet [Fringilla cannabina), .showing the gradual change of 

 colour on the breast-feathers of the male. He also described 

 the nesting of the Corn-Crako [Crex pratensis) in captivity, 

 and remarked that both captive and wild birds of this species 

 moulted the whole of their q lills directly after the young 

 were hatched, and that both male and female were then 

 incapable of flight. 



Islv. Bonhote also exhibited a remarkably large skin of a 

 Nightingale, shot in Augu;!t in Cambridgeshire, which 

 measured 7 inches in length and had a wing of -i'S inches. 



iNIr. ScLATER read some extrr.cts from letters received from 

 Mr. J. Graham Kerr (B.O.U.),who had recently left England 

 for Western Paraguay. They contained many notes on the 

 birds observed during his voyf.ge up the La Plata and Para- 

 guay Rivers to Asunciou, wher^) he had arrived on Sept. 13th. 

 As regards the alleged occurrence of a second species of 

 Cormorant on these rivers (Aplin, Ibis, 1S94, p. 152), he was 

 inclined to refer all the nunierous specimens he had hitherto 



