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Dr. P. L. ScLATER exhibited an egg of the Great Shear- 

 water ( Puffinus gravis, O'Reilly) which had been presented 

 to him by Mr. Peringuey, of Cape Town. It was one of the 

 specimens obtained at Tristan d^Acunha by Mr. P. C. Keytel, 

 during his recent visit to that group of islands {cf. Eeport 

 of S. Afr. Mus. 1909, p. 8). Dr. Selater remarked that this 

 was one of the few birds in the " British List '^ of which no 

 authentic eggs were hitherto known [cf. Saunders, 111. Man. 

 Brit. B. p. 738, and Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 91). 



The ^gg, which was of a uniform dirty white, slightly 

 stained, and pyriform in shape, measured 3'3 inches by 1*9. 



Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo remarked that in January 

 1906 the ' Valhalla ' " lay to " off Tristan d'Acunha for four 

 days, but, owing to rough weather, he was unable to land. 

 Among many other Petrels, he saw numerous pairs of 

 Puffinus gravis, and when about 140 miles to the east of that 

 island large numbers were again observed. He felt sure 

 that they must have been breeding on some of the islands of 

 the group. 



Mr. W. E,. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited a series of skins of 

 the Cormorant [Phalacrocorax carbo, Linn.), showing all the 

 stages of plumage between the young bird in down and the 

 adult in full breeding- plumage. He said that it would be 

 remembered that, at the March meeting of the previous 

 Session, Mr. Frohawk had exhibited a Cormorant with a 

 pure white breast and belly, which he regarded as a variety 

 of the fully adult bird, on account of its large size and the 

 bright blue-green colour of its iris. Mr. Frohawk's bird had 

 been shot at the Scilly Isles on the 30th of June, 1909, and 

 had been described and figured in the * Field ' of the 13th 

 of November, 1909, and again in Witherby's ' British Birds,' 

 iii. pp. 385-390 (1910). 



At the March meeting of the Club already referred to he 

 had stated that there could not be the slightest doubt that 

 Mr. Frohawk's bird was a young Cormorant still in the 

 plumage of the first year, and that the colour of the eye 



