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He also deplored the great loss to Science caused by the 

 death of their veteran Member Dr. Albert Gunther, who was 

 one of the last of the great zoologists of the type of Cuvier 

 and Geoffroy St. Hilaire. He had always held out a helping 

 hand to young zoologists, and he, the speaker, had to monrn 

 in him his oldest and greatest friend. Though specialising 

 in Ichthyology, he took an all-round interest in zoology and 

 had helped to push forward the love of natural history in 

 this country in a way few others could have done. 



He had also learnt with regret of the death of Mr. F. V. 

 McConnell, who had long been a Member of the Club, 

 though he seldom attended the Meetings. Mr. McConnell 

 had been specially interested in the Birds of British Guiana, 

 of which he possessed a large collection. 



Dr. C. B. Ticehurst made the following remarks on 

 the different races of the Dunlin (Tringa alpina) and exhibited 

 specimens : — 



" As is well known, there are two forms of the Dunlin 

 found in Western Europe, one a larger and duller coloured 

 bird, and the other smaller and brighter with a noticeably 

 smaller bill. It was the latter which Brehm*, in 1831, named 

 Tringa schinzi. The late Mr. Howard Saunders, in Yarreli, 

 4th edition, p. 379, says that it is this form which, as a rule, 

 breeds in our islands. I have examined breeding birds from 

 the north and west of England, the west of Ireland, Outer 

 Hebrides, and Orkney Islands (20 specimens in all), and I 

 think all might be said to belong to the smaller form 

 T. schinzi. The only breeding birds I have examined from 

 Norway (9 from Vads0) are mostly larger than the topo-typical 

 specimens from Riigen in the Baltic in the Brehm collection 

 now in the Tring Museum, but one has an equally large bill. 

 From the writings of Dr. Knud Andersen f, it seems certain 

 that the smaller form is the breeding bird of the Faeroe 



* Vogel Deutachl. p. 663. 



t Vidensk. Med. fra den naturh. Foren. i Kjtfbenhavn, 1898, p. 333, & 

 1899, p. 123. 



