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amended, Rule III. would be : — '' Members of the B. 0. U. can 



attend the Meetings of the Club as Visitors, but every Member 

 of the Club introducing a Member of the B. O. U. as a 

 visitor (to dinner or to the fleeting afterwards) shall pay 

 One Shilling to the Treasurer on each occasion/'' 

 The proposed alteration was accepted, nem. con, 



Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton exhibited some specimens 

 of birds from Kamchatka obtained during his recent trips to 

 the North Pacific, the most interesting being an apparently 

 new species of Nutcracker, which he described : — 



NUCIFRAGA KAMCHATKEXSTS, Sp. U. 



A'", similis N. curyocatacti, sed nigra, nee brunnescens, et 

 remigibus ad apicem albo maculatis vel marginatis. 

 iV. multipunctatcff potiiis affinis, et maculis albis magnis 

 ornata, sed area alba rectricum terminali miniis ex- 

 tensii (r3-J'5). Long. tot. 13-0 poll.^ culm. 1-85, alse 

 7'2, caudse 4-6, tarsi TSo. 



Mr. Reginald B. Lodge exhibited some of his ' Photo- 

 graphs of Bird Life,' which included figures of many British 

 Birds, as well as of other species from the marshes of 

 Holland and Southern Spain. 



Mr. Heatley Noble brought for exhibition the e^^ of the 

 Great Auk recently acquired by hira, and gave the following 

 histor}- of the specimen : — 



This e^^ was acquired by the late Mr. A. D. Bartlett, from 

 either ^Ir. Duun or ^l\\ Hoy, about 18o8. It was sold by 

 him in April 1842 to ^Ir. E. Maunde and repurchased in or 

 about 1851, after which it was sold to Dr. Nathaniel 

 Troughton in 185:2 (with a bird for £26) for £o. 



On April 27th, 1869, Dr. Troughtou's collection was sold 

 at Stevens's Rooms, King Street, and the egg was bought by 

 the second Lord Garvagh for :€60 or £64 (Lot 253). After 

 Lord Garvagh's death in 1871 the q^^ passed into the pos- 

 session of the Dowager Lady Garvagh, who died in 1891, 

 when it became the property of her daughter, the Hon. 

 Emmcline R. Canning, who died on February 9th, 1898, and 



