3. The President exhibited a skin of the true hedge-sparrow (Accentor modularis), killed in the suburbs of Wellington, which had been sent to him by Mr. Capper for identification. He remarked that it was most satisfactory to have this tangible proof that this very useful bird had become acclimatised in this country. He had several times observed it in his own garden in Wellington, hunting for insects in the shade of trees, and there was every reason to hope that it would increase and multiply.