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Show 1891-] MR- **• SAUNDERS ON CERTAIN BIRDS' EGGS. 373 PLATE XXXII. Fig. 1. Thysonotis cepheis, 6 > P- 364. 2. - , 2, P- 364. 3. chromia, p. 365. 4. Jamides scemias, 6 > P- 367. 5. , 2 > P- 367. 6. Epimastidia arienis, p. 365. 7. Lampides areas, 6, T>. 368. 8. , 2, p. 368. 9. Arhopala sophrosyne, p. 370. 10. Nacaduba astarte, p. 359. 11. Arhopala eurisus, 6, P- 370. 12. , 2, P. 370. 13. Beudorix woodfordi, 6 > P- 371. 14. , 2, P- 371. 15. viridens, 6, P- 371. June 16, 1891. Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. H. A. Bryden exhibited, and made remarks upon, a distorted pair of Horns of a cow Eland (Oreas canna) shot by him in 1890, in the North Kalahari. Mr. Bryden also exhibited specimens of the feet of the Lechee Antelope (Cobus lechee) and remarked upon their peculiar conformation. Mr. Howard Saunders, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on a nearly white skin of a Tiger from Northern India. The animal had been sent for preservation to Messrs. Keilich and Son by Major D. Robinson, Lancashire Fusiliers, Poona. From the skull and the condition of the teeth it appeared to be an adult male in the prime of life, the incisors being sharp and perfect. Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.Z.S., remarked that in his long experience in India he had only met with one similar example. Mr. Howard Saunders also exhibited and made remarks on some specimens of the eggs of the Spot-winged Gull (Larus maculipennis) and Trudeau's Tern (Sterna trudeaui), from the province of Buenos Ayres, obtained by Mr. Ernest Gibson, F.Z.S., and believed to be exhibited for the first time. The eggs of the former bird were, as might be expected, similar in character to those of other marsh-breeding brown-capped Gulls. The eggs of Sterna trudeaui were intermediate in their shape and pattern between those of the coast-breeding Terns (Sterna) and those of the marsh Terns (Hydroche-lidon). The nests of this Tern were stated to be placed in the swamps, amongst those of the Gull above mentioned. |