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2. With the wool still wound round the leg, but too 

 loosely to cause total necrosis. 



3. With the wool entwined round the toes and causing 

 partial necrosis of one toe. 



4. In which the wool had been entwined round the lea - 

 just above the foot and had caused the loss of the latter. 



Out of eight Lapwings shot four were affected in this 

 manner. 



A Yellow Wagtail {Motacilla rail) with both feet similarly 

 affected, was also shown. 



Dr. Sclater called attention to the interesting paper on 

 the birds of Dalmatia by Herr Kollibay in the recent num- 

 bers of the ' Journal fur Ornithologie ' (190 f, pp. 80 &457), 

 and exhibited specimens of two of the new subspecies, which 

 Herr Kollibay had kindly sent to him for examination — 

 Apus apus kollibayi, Tschusi, and Accentor collaris reiseri, 

 Tschusi. The former of these, which was stated (Orn. Jahrb. 

 xiii. p. 234) to be distinguishable by its " blacker colour and 

 large white chin-spot/'' Dr. Sclater thought could be easily 

 matched in a good series of Cypselus apus from various parts 

 of the Old World, but the Accentor collaris was certainly 

 slightly different from northern specimens, in its paler 

 colouring and ashy grey back and head. It was, however 

 apparently identical with examples from the Apennines. 



Mr. D. Seth-Smith exhibited a nestling and an egg of 

 Turacus macrorhynchus, from Mrs. Johnstone's aviaries at 

 Bury St. Edmunds, and made the following remarks : — 



" A pair of these fine Touracos collected a few sticks 

 together on a basket-lid fixed in a rhododendron-bush. 

 Two eggs were laid, one of which was hatched. The youno- 

 bird was covered with black down, and was carefully tended 

 by its parents, but succumbed during a very cold night in 

 September, when about a month old. At this age the wing- 

 feathers are well developed, but the rest of the body is 

 still covered with black down. The hatching and partial 

 rearing of this nestling will form the subject of a paper by 



