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of this species, from the River Ogowai, is in the Museum 

 of the Philadelphia Academy ; a second specimen, a female 

 from Liberia, is in the Leyden Museum ; the third, shot at 

 Diapanda, a Suaheli settlement in the Great African Forest, 

 in 1900, is in the Tring Museum ; a fourth, an adult female, 

 ■was procured at Efulen, Camaroons, in 1903, by Mr. G. L. 

 Bates. Mr. Seth-Smith's specimen, which is a male, is 

 believed to be the fifth example known. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited a nest containing four eggs, 

 together with the skin of the parent bird, of Cossypha gutturalis. 

 It was received from Mr. H. O. Whittall, of Smyrna, who 

 writes that he was on the mountains near that town about 

 the 2nd of May, and, seeing a pair of these birds, hired a 

 native to find the nest and to bring it to him. Strangely 

 enough, the nest was built in a low bush, barely six yards 

 from the native's tent. The birds commenced to build their 

 nest about the 8th of May and the female laid an egg every 

 day until the 11th inst. Seeing that it had ceased laying, the 

 native shot both the old birds and brought them, together 

 with the nest and eggs, to Mr. Whittall. The female was too 

 much damaged to skin, so only the skin of the male was 

 sent. Mr. Whittall could not himself take the nest, as the 

 mountains are extremely unsafe. 



Mr. Robert H. Read called attention to a nest of the 

 Red-legged Partridge containing three eggs which he had 

 observed in Somersetshire on April 29. This was the first 

 nest of this bird he had ever seen in that county, although of 

 late years it hr.d been gradually extending its range west- 

 wards. Five days later the nest contained only two 

 additional eggs, but within less than two feet of it a common 

 Grey Partridge had nested and laid three eggs. During the 

 next five days the Red-leg laid three more eggs and in the 

 four following days it added two more. The Grey bird in 

 the meanwhile had laid no more eggs, having possibly been 

 driven away by its more combative rival. It is well known 

 that the Red-leg is a very irregular layer and seldom lays an 

 egg every day. 



