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Museum at Norwich, for comparison with the type and unique 

 example of the species in tliat museum. Mr. Reeve stated 

 that the Guiana example was identical with the type of 

 A.jardinii, and therefore the habitat of this species, previously 

 unknown, was now ascertained to be Guiana. 



Mr. Ogilvie Grant, on behalf of Mr. C. B. Rickett, 

 exhibited an example of a very distinct new species of Scops 

 Owl, for which Mr. Rickett had proposed the name of 



Scops latouchii, sp. n. 



Adult male. This species belongs to the yellow-billed group 

 of the genus Scops, and is apparently most nearly allied to 

 S. icterurhyncha, Shelley, from the Gold Coast, and more 

 distantly related to S. rufescens (Horsf.), from Malacca and 

 the Sunda Islands. The pale frontal band is, however, less 

 conspicuous than in the above-named species. Scops la- 

 touchii differs chiefly from S. icterurhyncha in having the 

 feathers of the head and mantle distinctly barred with black 

 and rufous bufl"; but the barring is mostly concealed by the 

 wide reddish-brown tips to the feathers, which are very finely 

 vermiculated with black ; the tail is rather strongly marked 

 with irregular bars and mottlings of black on a brownish-red 

 ground ; the bars on the outermost primaries are rufous buft* 

 instead of white; the underparts are whitish buff, shading into 

 rufous on the upper breast and flanks, entirely devoid of dark 

 shaft-streaks, but very finely vermiculated with brownish 

 black ; the feathers covering the basal jjart of the belly, 

 vi'ut, and the longish flank-plumes are pure white, some of the 

 latter, like the under tail-coverts, having reddish-brown bars. 



Total length about 9"0 inches, wing 5*9, tail 3"5, tarsus 

 115. 



Hab. Ah Cli'ung, Fohkieu, ICth December, 1899. 



Mr. DiGBY PiGOTT communicated a note from his friend 

 Mr. J. R. Dasent, C.B., who had just returned from his 

 yearly visit to the island of St. Vincent, West Indies. 



Mr. Dasent stated that the destruction of bird-life of all 



