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no silk-cotton-trees from which the silky hairs or fibres could 

 be obtained for a distance of some miles from its position. 

 The nest was taken from under a house in Leguan (an 

 island in the estuary of the Essequibo) by Mr. H. Straker, 

 sub-immigration agent." 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke sent an account of the occurrence 

 of the Frigate- Petrel [Pelagodroma marina) on the west side 

 of Scotland. The bird, a female, was captured alive on 

 1st January of this year, by the margin of a stream on the 

 west side of the island of Colonsay. Having been forwarded 

 in the flesh to Edinburgh and identified by Mr. Clarke, it is 

 now in the Scottish National collection, in the Museum of 

 Science and Art in that city. The closing week of December 

 last had been remarkable for a succession of south-westerly 

 gales. This was the second recorded occurrence of this 

 Petrel in European seas ; and it was interesting to note that 

 the first record was also for the west coast of Britain, namely, 

 at Walney Island, in Morecambe Bay, where a specimen 

 was washed ashore dead in November 1890. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a hybrid between the 

 Pheasant and Black Grouse and a curious spangled variety 

 of the Common Partridge. 



The Club passed resolutions of sympathy with the family 

 of Herr Gaetke on the death of that eminent ornithologist, 

 and with Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown on the loss of the orni- 

 thological collections at Dunipace by fire. 



The next Meeting of the Club will be held on the 17th of 

 February, 1897, at the Restaurant frascati, 32 Oxford 

 Street ; the Dinner at 7 p.m. 



(Signed) 



P. L. ScLATERj R. Bowdler Sharpe, Howard Sauxuers, 

 Chairman. Editor. Sec. S^- Treas. 



