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Mr. G. W. Pearce showed slides of British birds and 

 nests taken mostly near Ealing and Pinner. They included 

 nest of Hedge-Sparrow with Cuckoo's egg, the same nest with 

 the young unfledged Cuckoo, and the same Cuckoo fully 

 fledged perched on a bough near the nest ; views of Turtle- 

 Dove's nest with eggs, unfledged young, and fully-fledged 

 young respectively ; nests with eggs of the Carrion-Crow 

 and Kestrel, photographed with great difficulty, in the tops 

 of tall trees; nests of Herring- Gull, Oyster-catcher, &c. 

 from the Scilly Isles. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharps showed a series of photographs 

 taken during the recent voyage of the ' Emerald/ Among 

 them were some of Cory's Gannet sitting on their eggs in 

 Little Cayman Island. 



Mr. Buskin Butterfield sent for exhibition a series of 

 lantern-slides (from photographs taken by Mr. H. E. Forrest, 

 of Shrewsbury) of nests and eggs of Welsh birds, including 

 those of a Kite built in a tall oak, 1903; three nests of 

 Buzzard, Buteo vulgaris, two in trees and one on the face 

 of a cliff; nest of Montagu's Harrier, near Lake Bala, July 

 1901 ; nest of Peregrine Falcon, cliff in Anglesea, May 1903 ; 

 nest of Haven on face of cliff; Ringed Plover eggs laid on 

 grass, May 1903 ; and nest and eggs of the Tufted Duck. 



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

 the 18th of May, 1904, at 8.30, at the Restaurant Frascati, 

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

 to dine are requested to inform Mr. Ogilvie- Grant. 



[N.B. — Members who intend to make any communication 

 at the next meeting of the Club are requested to 

 give notice beforehand to the Editor, also to supply 

 him with a written account of anything intended for 

 publication.] 



(Signed) 



H. J. Pearson, R. Bowdler Sharpe, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 



Chairman. Editor. Acting- Secretary. 



