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been recorded from any locality east of the Ural Mountains. 

 The late Dr. Rey surmised that it breeds in South Portugal, 

 South Spain, and the Balearic Isles. The first authenticated 

 eggs ever obtained, one of which I now exhibit, were taken 

 by Mr. P. A. Schastowskij on the borders of Lake Tschany, 

 near Taganowskiye, in Siberia, on the 20th of May, 1909. 

 Another correspondent, Mr. Ushakov, found more than one 

 clutch of four eggs in the Tara District in the south-eastern 

 part of the Tobolsk Government, Siberia, also during the 

 present year, and I expect ere long to receive a full clutch. 

 I have also received full particulars of the nidification of this 

 Curlew from Mr. Ushakov, which I shall publish in the next 

 part of my ' Eggs of the Birds of Europe/ The two eggs of 

 Numenius arquatus lineatus were taken by Mr. Schastowskij 

 at Kainsk, Siberia, on the 12th of May, 1909, and the three 

 eggs of Gallinago megala were also taken by the same 

 gentleman near Tomsk, Siberia, on the 15th of May, 1909/' 



Mr. P. F. Bunyard exhibited numerous sets of eggs of the 

 following species : — Tree-Pipit (Anthus trivialis), Blackcap 

 (Sylvia atricapilla) , Wood- Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix), 

 and Chaffinch (Fringilla ccelebs). The clutches of eggs of 

 the Tree-Pipit and Chaffinch clearly showed the great range 

 of variation in colour and markings which occurs among 

 the eggs of those species. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain exhibited a series of 14 eggs 

 of Larus audouini, Payr., including two clutches of three 

 and three clutches of two eggs, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



" When Lord Lilford was exploring the islets of the 

 Western Mediterranean in search of the nesting-places of 

 this, the rarest of the European breeding Gulls, the eggs 

 were not positively known, and he rightly described the 

 acquisition of 1 1 identified eggs from Toro as an ' orni- 

 thological triumph.' Since those days, although the range 

 of this species has been sho^n to extend from the east of 

 Spain to the coast of Syria, the number of authentic eggs 

 taken has been remarkably small, and the majority have 



