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Mr. Collingwood Ingram sent for exhibition a specimen 

 of a Scops Owl [Scops scops) which had been caught alive 

 in a coach-house at Broadstairs in March 1898, when a brisk 

 S.E. wind was blowing. The bird was kept alive for some 

 time, but ultimately died and came into Mr. Ingram's pos- 

 session. 



Dr. Sclatek exhibited a mounted specimen of a Common 

 Sparrow- Hawk (Accipiler nisus) belonging to the South 

 African Museum. It was labelled as having been obtained 

 at Swellendam, Cape Colony, by Mr. W. Atmore, a well- 

 known collector; but there was possibly some error in the 

 record, as the species had never been met with in any part 

 of South Africa before. 



Dr. Sclater read some extracts from a letter lately re- 

 ceived from Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo, who was spending 

 the winter at Tangier, and was intending to explore the 

 eastern parts of the Moroccan Atlas in the early spring. 

 Mr. Meade-Waldo promised an account of his journeys in 

 the Atlas in June and July last, and further particulars of 

 the new birds he had discovered (see above, p. 27), for the 

 'Ibis' of 190.2. 



Dr. Sclater also exhibited a set of the ' Daily Record ' 

 (for May last) of the birds observed by Mr. A. L. Butler at 

 Khartoum and its neighbourhood, and read the following 

 extract from a letter of that gentleman explaining his 

 methods of observation : — 



" 1 am sending you a form for noting birds met with 

 daily, which 1 have had printed for my private use, to ask 

 your opinion on it, and that of any members of the B. O. C. 

 who might care to see it at the next meeting. The form is 

 filled in for May, and is very interesting when compared 

 with the forms I have also kept for other months, as showing 

 fairly exactly the date on which certain species appear in 

 different districts. 



" My practice is to jot down the names of the birds any- 



