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Mr. M. J. Nicoll reported the recent capture of three 

 examples of the Tawny Pipit (Ant/ius campestris) and stated 

 that an adult male and female shot at Rye Harbour on the 

 14-th and 17th of August respectively were now in the 

 possession of Mr. Bristow, of St. Leonard's. 



Both these birds, in much-worn summer plnmage, were 

 shot on the same tract of grass where he himself had last 

 year procured four immature examples. 



On September 26th he had shot an immature Tawny Pipit 

 on the sea-banks of Sussex, between Bexhill and Pevensey, 

 and he thought there could be little doubt that the species 

 was a regular autumn visitor on migration. 



Mr. Nicoll also reported: — 1. That he had procured 

 an immature male of the Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lappo- 

 nicus) near Pevensey on the 28th of September. 



2. That an immature female of the Broad-billed Sandpiper 

 (Limicola platyrhyncha) had been shot at Rye, Sussex, on 

 the 29th August, and sent to Mr. Bristow, of St. Leonard's. 

 This was the fifth record of the occurrence of this species in 

 Sussex. 



Mr. C. B. Ticehurst exhibited a specimen of the Solitary 

 Sandpiper (Totanus solitarius) which had been shot at Rye 

 Harbour, Sussex, on the 7th of August by a man named 

 Peters. The latter had sent the bird to Mr. Bristow, of 

 St. Leonard's, by whom it had been well mounted. It 

 was believed to be the fourth British-killed example of this 

 American species. 



Mr. Ticehurst also exhibited a series of legs of the 

 Lapwing, taken from birds shot on Romney Marsh during 

 last August. These showed various stages of necrosis of the 

 lower part of the leg, caused by sheep-wool having become 

 wound round the part affected : — 



The following specimens were exhibitad : — 

 1. In which the wool had been pulled off the leg and only 

 a scar remained. 



