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Dr. Sharpe regretted that he had instituted a new generic 

 term for the Crested Gardener-Birds of South-eastern New 

 Guinea, but pleaded that the number of specimens of Ambly- 

 ornis inornata which had been received by European Museums 

 during the last twenty-three years — none of which had shown 

 the least trace of a crest — had warranted him in believing 

 that his genus Xanthochlamys was well founded. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant communicated a description of 

 two new species of birds from the Philippine Islands^ which 

 he proposed to characterize as follows : — 



Callaeops, gen. n. 



Genus simile generi ' Arses ' dicto, carunculam ophthalmicam 

 exhibens, sed crista longa lanceolata, cauda cvineata et 

 pedibus debilibus distiuguendum. 

 Typus est 



Callaeops periophthalmica, sp. n. 

 Omnino nigra : pectore mediano abdomineque albis : sub- 

 caudalibus et axillaribus albo marginatis. Long. tot. 

 8'5 poll., alse 3'5, caudsE 4*5, tarsi 0'6. 

 Hab. in insula Philippinensi 'Luzon' dicta. 



CiNNYRIS EXCELLENS, Sp. U. 



Similis C guimarasensi, Steere, sed fronte tantum chalybeo- 

 viridi, vertice nuchaque olivaceis, dorso aurantiaco, 

 hypochondriis olivaceo-griseis : plaga pectorali mediant 

 scarlatina distinguenda. Long. tot. 4*0 poll., alcC 1'9, 

 caudcC 1*2, tarsi 55. 

 Hab. in parte meridionali insulte Philippinensis ' Luzon ' 



dictse. 



Mr. Henry Seebohm called attention to the existence of 

 two races of the Ground-Thrush, which had hitherto been 

 united under the name of Geocichla sibirica. The two forms 

 were easily distinguishable, and should be called Geocichla 

 sibirica (Pall.) and G. davisoni (Hume). 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited the skin uf a Phasianus 



tovqiiatiis from Samoa. 



