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Mr. J. G. Millais exhibited some very interesting pictures 

 illustrative of the courting of several species of British Ducks. 



Mr. R. B. Lodge showed some beautiful photographs taken 

 by himself in different parts of Europe. They included 

 illustrations of the nesting of Night-Herons, Egrets, and 

 Wading-birds in Andalucia ; Spoonbills (adults and young), 

 Herons, Storks, and Black Terns in Holland. One picture 

 of a Purple Heron was particularly interesting, as the bird 

 automatically photographed itself on returning to its nest, 

 by means of an electric current connecting the camera and 

 the nest on which the bird set its foot. The eggs of a 

 Ringed Plover with the parent bird had been photographed in 

 1901, on a sewage-farm situated within the London postal 

 district. Nests of Montagu's Harrier and the Short-eared 

 Owl had been also successfully photographed in Norfolk in 

 1899. 



Exhibitions of lantern-slides, illustrating the life-history 

 of European birds, were given by Mr. Ticehurst, Mr. Robert 

 Read (who had some excellent pictures of birds' nests, many 

 of them taken during his expedition to Denmark, with 

 Mr. A. D. Sapsworth, in the spring of 1901), and Mr. Buttress 

 (who showed some particularly good pictures of Ptarmigan). 

 Mr. Dando showed some pictures photographed by himself, 

 and taken from birds living in the Zoological Society's 

 Gardens. 



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

 the 16th of April, 1902, at 8.30, at the Restaurant Frascati, 

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



(Signed) 



P. It. SCLATER, R. BOWDLER ShARPE_, W. E, DE WlNTON 



Chairman. Editor. Sec. «5f Treas. 



