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the new Palestine Museum. The Storks seen were, no doubt, 
on their homeward journey from South Africa. 
Mr. J. Buckland’s Lantern-slides of Birds. —At the Linnean 
Society’s meeting on May 6th last, Mr. James Buckland 
exhibited a series of sixty lantern-slides received from the 
United States of America and Australia, in illustration of 
various species of birds in imminent danger of extinction in 
consequence of the commercial demand for their plumage as 
means of adornment. He pointed out the urgency of pro¬ 
hibitive legislation in order to save a multitude of birds, 
now rare, from the reckless slaughter by the plume-hunters. 
The first group of slides shewed the slaughter of Gulls 
and Terns on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, 
so great that President Roosevelt had intervened by pro¬ 
claiming certain portions as reservations, and thereby saving 
the Terns in these protected sanctuaries. Next were shown 
the Snowy Herons on the Florida Keys Reservation; the 
patrol boats for the enforcement of the protective regula¬ 
tions ; the grave of a warden shot in the execution of 
his duty by a bird-hunter on forbidden territory; and the 
nesting-habits of the Egret in Florida. 
Following these came slides of plumage-birds from 
Oregon, California, and Venezuela; the flightless birds of 
New Zealand ; the Birds-of-Paradise, Emu, Lyre-bird, 
various Bower-birds; and the home of the Albatross, the Aus¬ 
tralian Gannet in its rookery, closing with “ The cost of a 
plume/’ a series of slides shewing the slaughter of the parent 
birds and the lingering death of the nestlings by starvation. 
Mr. Fenton’s Collection of Eggs. —We learn from f Nature’ 
(vol. lxxx. p. 223) that a fine collection of the eggs of British 
Birds has been presented by Mr. R. Hay Fenton to the 
Natural History Museum of the University of Aberdeen. 
The collection consists of about 7000 eggs, amongst which 
are some of Ross’s Gull from the Kolyma River, and a good 
series of Cuckoos’ eggs accompanied by the foster-parents’ 
clutches. The last addition to the collection was an egg of 
the Great Auk (Alca impennis) , purchased in London. 
