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diately above the bill in C. islandica which is absent in 

 C. glaucion" 



Barrow's Golden-eye must therefore be removed from the 

 List of British Birds, though its occasional presence in 

 winter off our coasts can scarcely be doubted. 



Mr. Clifford Borrer exhibited a variety of the Song- 

 Thrush (Turdus musicus), taken at Tunbridge Wells in June 



1911. The bird was immature and showed a well-defined 

 white superciliary stripe, the remainder of the plumage being 

 a good deal mottled with white. He also exhibited some 

 skins of the continental Song-Thrush, shot on the Norfolk 

 coast during a very remarkable migration on the 25th Sep- 

 tember, 1912. 



The Rev. J. R. Hale exhibited a pale cinnamon-coloured 

 Blackbird [Turdus merula Linn.), which had been shot at 

 Lydd, Kent, in October 1911. He also showed eggs of the 

 Budgerigar, or Grass-Parroquet (Melopsittacus undulatus), 

 laid in captivity. The eggs, which were of a light bluish 

 colour, were remarkable for their extremely small size, 

 about equal to those of the Long-tailed Titmouse, and from 

 the fact that all three had been laid in one day. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also exhibited a remarkable-looking 

 variety of the Blackbird, sent to him by Major B. K. W. 

 Bacon from Llanegan, N, Wales, on the 8th of November, 



1912. The bird, which was a female, had a wide white collar 

 round the back of the neck, the rest of its plumage being 

 normal. 



Mr. P. F. Bunyard exhibited clutches of remarkably 

 coloured eggs of the following species : — 



Swallow. (Hirundo rustica.) A clutch of five eggs, Kent, 

 June 1896. 



Song-Thrush. (Turdus musicus.) A clutch of four eggs, 

 Surrey, 15th June, 1912. 



Crossbill. (Loxia curvirostra.) A clutch of five eggs, 

 Suffolk, 12th May, 1911. 



