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Hab. Lake Baringo District, Rift Valley, B.E. Africa. 



Type in the British Museum: £ . No. 631. 20 miles 

 S. of Lake Baringo, 3800 ft., 24.xii. 12. W. P. Lowe coll. 

 Presented by Lieut. G. P. Cosens. 



Obs. Nine examples have been examined from the llift 

 Valley. 



Mr. Meade-Waldo exhibited the down and breast-feathers 

 taken from the nest of a Garganey (Querquedula circia) 

 found on the banks of the Eden near Hever, Kent, on the 

 27th of May; the eggs, eight in number, had just hatched. 

 He said that he had occasionally seen a drake about, and in 

 former years had sometimes seen a pair. The " Summer 

 Teal '"' was quite well known to some of the older game- 

 keepers and farmers in the neighbourhood. The nest in 

 question was placed on the side of a drain in a rough 

 meadow, and the workman who found it had seen the duck 

 with her young ones. 



Mr. Ogilvie - Grant pointed out that the down of 

 the Garganey was easily distinguished from that of the 

 Common Teal (Q. crecca), which was also exhibited for 

 comparison. That of the Garganey was much darker in 

 colour, and had much longer filaments tipped with white, 

 a very conspicuous character. In the Common Teal the down 

 was altogether shorter and of a sooty-brown colour, the 

 white tips being entirely absent. The small breast-feathers 

 also were easily recognisable, the dark blackish markings on 

 each side of the shaft being characteristic of the Garganey, 

 while in the Common Teal the markings were pale brownish 

 or absent. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain exhibited a nest and a clutch 

 of five eggs of Hypocolius ampelinus, taken by Mr. A. G. 

 Tomlinson in South-west Persia, on the 24th of May, 1913. 

 Between the years 1886 and 1897, Mr. W. D. Cumming had 

 found considerable numbers of this species nesting near 



