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and Red-necked Phalaropes. A few days later we discovered 
a third nest o£ this Skua on the mainland in a much drier 
situation, making in all six eggs of this bird. I might add 
that in each instance the eggs were slightly incubated. 
The figures in Plate XI. have been taken from drawings 
made by Mrs. Boyce Hill. The upper figures represent 
specimens in my collection, and the lower are those of 
specimens in that of Mr. Popham. 
The measurements of the eggs as given by Mr. Popham 
in f The Ibis" (1897, p. 107) are 2* *35 to 2*65 inches by 179 
to 1-86.* 
XXXII.— Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the 
British Ornithologists " Union, 1900. 
The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists" 
Union was held at the rooms of the Zoological Society of 
London, 3 Hanover Square (by permission of the Council of 
that Society), on Wednesday, the 16th May, at 5.30 p.m., 
Mr. F. DuCane Go dm an, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last Annual Meeting having been read 
and confirmed, the Report of the Committee was read. It 
stated that the Union had suffered the loss of eleven Members 
by death since the last Anniversary. These were :—Mr. John 
Cordeaux, Hr. Elliott Coues, Mr. H. B. Hewetson, Lord 
Hylton, Mr. E. L. Layard, Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 
Prof. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Mr. T. J. Monk, Mr. E. 
M. H. Riddell, Mr. F. B. Simson, and Hr. A. C. Stark. 
Five Members had withdrawn, and one Member had been 
removed (under the operation of Rule 6) for non-payment 
of his subscription. 
* [Middendorff appears to have been the first to obtain authenticated 
eggs of this species, and the figure of a specimen from the Taimyr 
Tundras is given in his ‘ Sibirische Reise ’ (pi. xxiv. fig. 1), while a better 
illustration of an example taken by Middendorff in the same district has 
been given by Prof. Newton (P. Z. S. 1861, pi. xxxix. fig. 3). We are not 
aware of any other figures of authenticated specimens up to the time of 
Messrs. Popham and Hill. After comparing their genuine eggs with the 
specimen taken on Berg Island, Novaya Zemlya, and ascribed to this 
species (Man. Brit. B. 1st ed. p. 736), Col. Feilden and Saunders are of 
opinion that the last is probably an unusually large egg of S. crepidatus . 
—Edd.] 
