376 BiiUethi of the nrifi.t/i 



Total Icngtli 183 mm., wing 100, tail IH, culmeu 23, 

 tarsus 25. 



Hab. North Queeuslaud (Cooktown, June 25th, 1899). 



The species had been named after its collector, Mr. 1']. 

 Olive, who is known in Australia as a careful and accnrate 

 licld-naturalist. 



Mr. lioTHSCHiLu also exhibited a specimen of Geocichla 

 jinjHicnsis of Seebohm, which he had recently received from 

 the Aroa River, British New Guinea, lie jjointcd out the 

 mature characters of tlie species, wliich had been originally 

 desei'ibed from an immature specimen, hitherto unique, in 

 the British Museum. 



Mr. Hahrv F. WiTUKRBv exhibited a specimen oi Lunosa 

 lapponica in down, obtained out of a brood of four from a 

 marsh near the Imandra Lake, in Russian Lajjland, on the 

 16th of July, 1899. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert showed some nesting-boxes for the 

 encouragement of birds which breed in holes. The "prac- 

 tical " bird-protection, which was warmly advocated on the 

 Continent by Frciherr von Berlepsch, aimed at furnishing 

 ucw^ breeding-places for useful birds, natural food in hard 

 winter-times, and cover and protection against their enemies. 

 The feeding in winter-time was not so easy, and on this 

 subject Berlepsch's book might be read with advantage. The 

 planting of thick bushes, especially those with thorns, and 

 berry-bearing species which were liked by birds, instead of the 

 foreign evergreens and shrubs which only a few birds really 

 loved, was not within the means of every one, and could only 

 be done by landowners who were interested in birds ; but the 

 putting up of uesting-boxes was practicable almost every- 

 where, in gardens, parks, and woods, on a large or small scale. 

 In Germany, nesting-boxes were a very old institution, but 

 they had not met with general approval, because they had not 

 hitherto been quite successful. Now, however, von Berlepsch 

 had invented nesting-boxes like those exhibited, and they 

 were a wonderful success. They were imitations of the holes 



