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Bulletin of tlie British 



(P. Crown bi'owu, sinciput and 



nape extensively blue 



(V. Fore-neck and breast pure grey, 

 with the edges of tlie feathers 



whitish 



b". Breast and throat with a scale-like 



appearance 



b. No brown-red patch on the lower back. 

 c'. With distinct pectoral bars. 



c". Sides of the body and thighs yellow. 



d". Sides of the body not yellow 



d'. With no distinct pectoral bars ; ear- 

 corerts red 



Turin, Zoological Museum, 

 June 1900. 



6. eminct, p. '217. 



7. (/riseipectus. 



8. jyicfa, p. 217. 



9. lueiani, p. 219. 



10. hi/poxantha. 

 { 11. et/reyia, p. 221. 



12. calliptera, p. 221. 



13. melanura, p. 222. 



14. souancei, p. 223. 



) 15. berlf.^pchi, p. 224. 

 ] 16. rupkolu, p. 224. 



17. molincc, p. 22o. 



18. deviUei, p. 226. 



19. ftrlata, p. 227. 



20. rhodo(jastm-, p. 229. 



21. hcematotis, p. 229. 



22. rhodocephaUi, p. 229. 



23. hoffmamii, p. 230. 



XLIII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists^ Club. 



No. LXXIII. (July 3rd, 1900). 



The seventy-second Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of June, 1900. Chairman: P. L. Sclater, F.E.S. 

 Twenty-two Members and five guests were present. 



Mr. H. F. WiTUERBY exhibited a male specimen of Capri- 

 mulgus e.vimius procured by him on the White Nile near 

 Khartoum, in May 1900. So far as was known, this was the 

 fifth example of this bird that had been procured. Three 

 examples were obtained in 1823 or 1824 by Hey, Riippell's 

 collector, probably near the "White Nile. Two of these were 

 now at Frankfurt and one at Leyclen (see Hartert, Ibis, 1892, 



