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oaly from an aesthetic but still more from aa economical 

 point of view) to the prevalence of the '^ chasse" during the 

 autumn and winter months and the sale of small birds of 

 every sort for food in the markets ; and expressed a hope 

 that every Member of the B.O.U. would do all he could to 

 shelter and protect bird-life in the country, lest we should 

 fall into the same condition. 



Mr. Rothschild also made some remarks on the few birds 

 recently observed by him near Bordighera. 



Mr. ScLATER had, curiously enough, found in the bird-shop 

 of Peracino, at Cannes, four examples of a bird which he 

 had never seen alive before — the Masked Hawfinch {Cocco- 

 thraustes personatus) of Japan — and had purchased them for 

 the Zoological Society for a trifling sum. Mr. Sclater 

 exhibited two of these birds in their cas:e to the meeting. 



Mr. E. BiDWELL exhibited a new field-glass, which he 

 considered to be likely to prove of great service to orni- 

 thologists. 



Mr. Hahtert made some remarks on the system of 

 labelling birds adopted in the Tring Museum, drawing 

 particular attention to the red label which was used for 

 the easy identification of typical specimens. 



]Mr. H. J. Elwes made some very interesting remarks on 

 birds observed by him during his expedition to the Altai 

 ^Mountains, with especial reference to the boundary-lines of 

 the Eastern and Western Palaarctic Region. 



Tvlr. L. W. WiGi.EswGRTH scut the following note to the 

 meeting : — 



'' Pachi/cephahi chlonrra, Gray, of the New Hebrides, 

 belongs to a group of Pachycephalcs in which the coloration 

 of the sexes differs considerably, and the female was described 

 as an Eopsaltria by Gray and named by him (B. Trop. Is. 



