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species : — Barrow's Golden-eye [Clangula islandica), Wigeon 

 (Mareca penelope), American Wigeon, Scaup (Fuligula 

 marila), Mallard {Anas buscas), Long-tailed Duck (Harelda 

 glacialis), Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), 

 Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima), Gad wall (Chaulelasmus 

 streperus), Black Scoter (CEdemia nigra), Pted-breasted 

 Merganser (Merganser serrator), Iceland Jerfalcon (Hiero- 

 falco islandus), Arctic Tern {Sterna macrura), Rock-Ptar- 

 migan (Lag opus rupestris), Purple Sandpiper (Arquatella 

 maritima), Whimbrel (Numenius phatopus), Golden Plover 

 (Charadrius pluvialis), Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus 

 hyperboreus) , Slavonian Grebe (Dytes auritus), Red-throated 

 Diver (Colymbus septentrionalis) , Hornemann''s Redpoll 

 (Cannabina hurnemanni) . 



Mr. Coburn also exhibited some British examples of the 

 following birds: — a Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser 

 erythropus), shot near King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 1900; a 

 very black-breasted example of the White-fronted Goose 

 (Anser albifrons), shot in Co. Mayo in the spring of 1901 ; 

 HolboelFs Redpoll (Cannabina holboelli) from Achill Island; - 

 and the Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus) , also from 

 Achill, where it was shot by Mr. Coburn himself. 



Mr. Byatt sent for exhibition the nest and egg of the 

 Lesser Redpoll (Cannabina rufescens) taken near Midhurst 

 in Sussex. 



The next Meeting of the Club will be held on Wednesday, 

 the 20th of November, 1901, at 8.30, at the Restaurant 

 Frascati, 32 Oxford Street ; the Dinner at 7 p.m. 



(Signed) 

 Howard Saunders, R. Bowdler Sharpe, W. E. de Winton, 

 Chairman. Editor. Sec. <Sf Treas. 



