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young males it was either straight or very slightly con- 

 voluted. As the males became adult the trachea greatly 

 increased in length, and in old birds coiled spirally on the 

 breast or was disposed in some other aberrant manner [cf. 

 Pavesi, /. c. figs. 4, 5]. From the drawings of the trachea 

 in the various species of Manucodia it would be observed 

 that in this genus it was always much shorter and simpler, 

 being merely a simple loop extending to the vent in the 

 most highly developed specimens. The external differences 

 between the genera Manucodia and Phonygarna were thus 

 further emphasised by this secondary sexual character, 

 which gave additional evidence that the genera were well 

 founded. Mr. Grant stated that it was his intention to gather 

 together all the available information on the subject and 

 publish a resume 'in the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society/ 



Dr. F. D. Drewitt exhibited an autograph letter of 

 John Latham (on the occasion of his marriage in 1798) 

 written to William Jones, one of the early members of the 

 Linnean Society. 



Dr. Drewitt also exhibited an Illustrated MS. Catalogue of 

 British Birds' Eggs by William Jones, drawn from specimens 

 in his own collection in 1799. He also exhibited some of 

 the eggs from which the drawings had been made. The 

 drawings were remarkably well executed, though in some 

 cases the colours had deteriorated. 



Major F. W. Proctor and Mr. W. Radcliffe Saunders 

 exhibited a number of clutches of eggs of the Little Stint 

 {Tringa minuta), together with adult birds and young in down, 

 collected by Herr Koren, of the Danish ff Northern Light " 

 Expedition, at Matotchkin Shar, Novaya Zemlya, on Juty 

 the 7th and 8th, 1903. 



Mr. H. J. Pearson also brought for comparison a large 

 number of clutches of eggs of the Little Stint taken by 

 himself and Colonel H. W. Feilden in the same country 

 and on the islands of Dolgoi and Waigats during the summer 

 of 1897 [cf. Bull. B. O. C. vii. no. xlvii. p. ii (1897) ; and 

 'Ibis/ 1898, p. 200]. 



