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son read a paper entitled " Ornithological Notes — Clyde Faunal Area, 1895," 

 in which he made reference to the following points : — The irruption of little 

 Auks early in the year ; the duck-life of our estuarine waters, with statistics ; 

 the movements of Gulls in Glasgow harbour ; the appearance of our summer 

 migrants ; the nesting of the Sheld-duck, and its status as a Clyde species ; 

 the occurrence in summer of the Tufted Duck and Shoveller on Possil 

 Marsh ; and of the appearance of the Cormorant there in winter. A list of 

 the birds of Douglasdale, and some notes on Waders in the Clyde estuary — 

 on which latter subject information is very meagre — concluded the reading of 

 a most interesting and valuable paper, for which the author, on the motion 

 of the chairman, was heartily thanked. 



At the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, held on April 15th, 

 Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a female example of a new British Petrel 

 (Oceanodromacryptoleucura) which was picked up on the beach close to Little- 

 stone, a small village six miles north of Dungene^s, on December 5th last, 

 it was taken to Mr. Bristow, the taxideimist at St. Leonards', and was there 

 seen in the flesh by Mr. Boyd Alexander. The species inhabits the South 

 Atlantic, and has recently been found breeding in the Canaries by Mr. Ogilvie 

 Grant. 



The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens up to April 80th, 

 included two Amherst's Pheasants (Thaumalea amherstiai ?) from China, 

 received in exchange (Pheasantry) ; two Swinhoe's Pheasants (Euplocamus 

 swinhoii S and $ ) from Formosa, purchased (Pheasantry) ; a Bar-tailed 

 Pheasant (Phasianus reevesi ?) from N. China, purchased (Pheasantry); 

 a hybrid Japanese Pheasant (P. versicolor x P. colcMcus ? ); purchased 

 (Pheasantry) ; two Rosy Parakeets (Palxornis rosa £ and $ ) from Bur- 

 mah, purchased (Parrot House) ; two Musky Lorikeets (Trichoglossus con- 

 einnus <J and ? ) from Australia, purchased (Parrot House) ; a Leadbeater's 

 Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) from Australia, presented by Miss E. S. 

 Young (Parrot House) ; two Elliot's Pheasants (Phasianus ellioti $ and o ) 

 from China, purchased (Pheasantry) ; two Great American Egrets (Ardcn 

 rgretla) from America, purchased (E. Aviary) ; three Canarian Laurel 

 Pigeons (Cvlumba laurivora) from Island of Gomera, Canary Islands, 

 presented by Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo (W. Aviary) ; a Yinaceous 

 Pigeon (C. vinacea) from S. America, purchased (W. Aviary) ; a Porto 

 Rico Pigeon (C. corensis) from West Indies, purchased (W. Aviary) ; a 

 Common Mynah (Acridotheres Iristris) from India, presented by Mrs. S. E. 

 Kennedy (W. Aviary); a Hose-breasted Grosbeak (Hedymeles ludavicianws) 

 from North America, deposited (W. Aviary) ; a Redbacked Weaver Bird 

 (Quelca sanguinirostris) from AY. Africa, deposited (W. Aviary) ; a Java 

 Sparrow (Put/, 'a oryziiam') from Java, deposited (W. Aviary); an 



