14. 



Date. Donations, 



Solitary Snipe (Scolopax major). 



Hanging Nest. 



Skins of thirteen Birds from the Mauritius, Cape of 



Good Hope, and Bengal. 



Two specimens of the Knot, immature ( Tringa Canu- 

 tus, Lin.^ ; one of the Sanderling ( Calidris arena- 

 ria, Temm J ; two of the Arctic Gull, immature 

 ( Larus parasiticus, Lin. J ; and one of the common 

 Godwit (Limosa rufa, Temm. j. 



One specimen of the Reeve (Tringa Pugnax, lAa.) ; 

 and one of the Dunlin (Tringa variabilis, Temm.J. 



Wheatear (Saxicola CEnantTie, Teram.^. 



Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus, Lin.^. 



October. Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus, Lin.^. 



The Eggs of one hundred and twenty-seven species of 



British Birds. 

 Red-legged Crow (Pyrrhocorax graculus, Temm.^. 



Creeper ( Certhia familiar is, Lin.^. 



Hooded Crow (Corvus Comix, l,m.J. 

 December. Bohemian Chatterer (Bombycivora garrula, Temm ). 

 Skins of three Birds from Greenland. 



Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus, Lin.^. 



Waterhen ( Gallinula chloropus, Lin.^. 



Moor Buzzard, female (Falco aruginosus, Lin J. 



Female Bulfinch. 



Peregrine Falcon, female ( Falco per egrinus, Lin J. 



White variety of the Bulfinch. 



Skins of seven Australian Birds. 



Pair of Starlings (Stumus vulgaris, Lin. J. 



Donors. 



Colonel Shadforth, 

 Witton-le-Wear. 



John Buddie, Esq. 



Mr. Robert Currie. 



Mr. E. Backhouse, 

 jun., Sunderland. 



Rev. R. Green, 

 Newcastle. 



Mr. Wilkinson. 



Mr. Geo. Lawson, 

 Heddon-on-the- 

 Wall. 



T. V. R. Dutton, 



Esq. 

 Geo. C. Atkinson, 



Esq. 



Dr. Geo. Johnston, 

 Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed. 



Mr. John Thomp- 

 son, Crowhall 

 Mill, near Hex- 

 ham, 



Rev. R. Green. 



Mrs.Losh,Jesmond. 



Rev. Geo. C. Abbs, 

 Gateshead. 



Mr. I. T. Cookson. 



Master J. Dutton. 



Mr. R. Dickinson, 

 Alston. 



Mr. R. Shield, 

 Newcastle. 



Rev. W. Rawes, 

 Easington. 



Mr. M. Wheatley, 

 jun. 



Geo. Hodgson, Esq. 

 Newcastle. 



Ben. Johnson, Esq. 

 Newcastle. 



