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" This species is closely allied to A. maritima, but is dis- 

 tinguished by its leaden-brown plumage oxxAwhite superciliary 

 streaks, as well as by the increased amount of white on the 

 tail-feathers." 



Dr. EowDLER Sharpe exhibited a specimen of the rare 

 Bubo Jetti, Biittik., from the Rio Benito, Frcncli Congo, 

 obtained by Mr. G. L. Bates. The species had been originally 

 described by Dr. Biittikofer from Liberia, and placed by him 

 in the genus Bubu. The present specimen, however, had 

 been examined by JNTr. Pycraft for its pterylography, and 

 Dr. Sharpe, judging by its external characters, concurred, 

 with him that it belonged to the genus Scops, and should 

 be known as Scops letti (Biittik.). 



Another interesting bird procured by Mr. Bates was a 

 white-spotted Crake, which did not seem to be quite the 

 same as Canirallus oculeus of the Gold Coast. It was identical, 

 however, with the bird from the Cameroons, and Dr. Sharpe 

 had already referred (Cat. B. xxiii. p. 73) to the differences 

 exhibited by the birds of the latter country. He therefore 

 proposed to describe the Crake from the French Congo and 

 the Cameroons as 



Canirallus batesi, sp. n. 

 Ad. Similis C. oculeo, sed saturatior, dorso saturate olivas- 

 centi-brunneo, nee vireseenti-olivaceo : pileo sordide 

 brunneo, nee rufescenti-brunneo : fronteet facie latei-ali, 

 sicut in C. oculeo, cinereis; regione auriculari quoque 

 cinerea. Long. tot. 110 poll., culm. 1-35, alae G-3, caudae 

 .2*4, tarsi 1*95. 



Among other interesting birds obtained on the Rio Benito 

 on the same occasion were examples of Bnbulcus lucidus and 

 Calopelia brelimeri. 



Dr. Sharpe likewise exhibited a specimen of a Goshawk 

 from British Guiana, from the collection of Mr. F. V. 

 McConnell. Feeling sure that it was Astur jardinii of 

 Gurney (Ibis, ]887, p. 96, pi. iii.). Dr. Sharpe had sent the 

 specimen to Mr. James Reeve, the Director of the Castle 



