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at five feet from the ground. They were also shown a Wild Duck, 
Avhich had selected the top of a thatched shed for the place of her 
nest ; the colour of her plumage so closely resembling the colour of 
the old shed that it was difficult to distineruish the one from the 
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other. The Flowering liush and the small upright St. John’s 
AFort were among the plants found by our botanists that day. 
On the 16 til of August, a few members travelled to Hethersett by the 
3.20 train and investigated the Xatural History of East Carlton, 
under the guidance of Mr. Bussey, tea being provided at the Curzon 
Hall Farm, but the attendance was very small. 
I for one regard with disfavour the proposal to abandon these 
summer outings. As long as ladies and gentlemen are found to 
join in them and make up a pleasant party, whose object is 
observation and natural history, wo have a proof of their popularity, 
and then again, the object for which they are maintained is part I y 
to interest others besides ourselves. 
The scientific meetings for the year have, on the ivliole, been 
very important, and the articles which are about to be printed in 
the ‘ Transactions ’ will afford sterling evidence of this. Part 5 
will conclude Vol. iv., which will certainly not be inferior to its 
predecessors. 
At our April meeting Mr. (1. .Smith exhibited two White 
"Wagtails, shot near Yarmouth, being the first properly authenticated 
Hor folk-killed specimens, there being more or less doubt about all 
others previously; and Mr. dohn Gunn part of a left antler of 
Mrjjaceros liihevnicm (Owen) from Pakefield, from a bed considered 
to be the upper part of the Horwich Crag; while your President gave 
an account of Heligoland. This island speck in the Horth Sea is 
celebrated for its birds, which are, practically speaking, all migrants, 
for the resident species are so few that they can be counted on the 
fingers of one hand. Ornithologically, it owes its celebrity entirely 
to the energies of one man, Herr Giitke, now a veteran in the cause. 
He came to the island, as a young artist from Prussia, nearly half- 
a-century ago, and has ever since kept an accurate register of all the 
birds which have been shot on Heligoland; and when it is remem- 
bered that more rarities have been got there than at any place of 
