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c\ Colours otherwise much as in E. Immmondi, and 

 varying between the same or even greater ex- 

 tremes, but averaging somewhat greyer, with 

 paler (often distinctly whitish) throat. Male : 

 Wing 2-70-2-95 (2-83) inches, tail 2-5o-2-80 

 (2-67), culinen 0-62-0-69 (0-65), width of bill 

 at base 0-24-0-27 (0-26), tarsus 0-71-0-77 (0-74). 

 Female : Wing 2-55-2-75 (2-64), tail 2-50-2-G5 

 (2-52). — Hah. Western U. S., south, in winter, 

 to Southern Mexico E. obscurus. 



c^. Deep brownish olive above, the wing-bands vary- 

 ing from olive to pale olive-greyish ; lower parts 

 dull yellow, shaded across breast with olive- 

 brown. Wing 2-92-3-00 inches, tail 2-65-2-75, 

 culmen 0-60, width of bill at base 0-22-0-25, 

 tarsus (one specimen only) 0'G8. — TIab. Southern 

 Mexico (City of Mexico, Orizaba, &c.) E. fiiMpedus. 



XLIV. — Ornithology in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 

 By Howard Saunders. 



It was hardly to be expected that Ornithology would he so 

 well represented in this fourth Exhibition as it was in the 

 first, when the collections made on the cruise of the ' Vega,' 

 and. those from the United. States and Australia, formed such 

 important features. India, indeed, might well be excused 

 from sending anything, in view of the unrivalled Hume Col- 

 lection lately presented to the British Museum ; and several 

 of our larger Colonies might consider that after what they 

 had already done, anything further would be a vain repe- 

 tition. Such, however, has not been the assumption, and 

 consequently a display has been made in this department 

 which has proved even more attractive to the public than were 

 the exhibits on the former occasion, although the present 

 series is necessarily somewhat inferior in scientific value. 



The mounted birds in the Kuch-Behar tiger-hunting and 

 jungle scene, daily visited by crowds of visitors, call for no 

 special remark, the species being representative ones and 

 consequently well-known. Mr. E. C. Buck exhibits three large 

 cases of Indian Game Birds ; and, hard by, the magnificent 



