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Volvo x globalor. Mr. Geldart intimated that should opportu- 
nity again present itself, he would still further pursue this very 
intricate and interesting subject. 
A paper was read at our February meeting by Mr. Geldart, 
contributed by Mr. F. Norgate of Sparham, on the Destruction of 
many Birds through the ignorance of gamekeepers and gardeners, 
ho also explained the use of nesting boxes ; as the paper itself will 
be published, I need not enter into the details of it. At the same 
meeting, Mr. J. II. Gurney, jun. gave a lecture, entitled The Rambles 
of a Naturalist in Egypt , which was almost entirely confined to the 
ornithology of the country, which he said was remarkable for the 
number of aquatic birds that make the Nile their home, and that 
to observe their nidification was the principal object of his visit last 
year : he stated that the number of birds indentified by him was 
223, a number far exceeding that observed in Algeria, lie then 
stated the number of game birds shot by himself and friends, 
consisting of snipe, quail, two species of sand grouse, and ducks, 
(but for these latter they were too late to kill many,) shewing that 
there was plenty of temptation for the sportsman as well as the 
naturalist, and that the snipe shooting of the Delta, was equal if 
not superior to the best in India. In some of the lakes the Coots 
were in such abundance that on the water he mistook them for an 
Island, and when they rose they looked like the smoke out of the 
funnel of a steamboat. Flamingos, also, were in prodigious numbers. 
After mentioning the names of those Naturalists who had written 
on Egypt, he informed us that he hoped ere long to add a work of 
his own to those already published. 
In touching on the subject of migration, Mr. Gurney broached 
(to me, at least), a new theory, namely, that some of our summer 
migrants amongst the Insessores may be considered to breed in 
Southern Africa in winter as well as in England in the summer, and 
thus really may be double brooded. He remarked that though the 
outlines of the Egyptian Goose and the Ibis on the monuments are 
extremely accurately drawn, the colouring was very for from natural. 
Their chief discovery was that of the lesser white fronted goose, 
( Anser minutus, Naum,) in Egypt, a bird which was formerly 
