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Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also exhibited the male and female of 

 a new species of Zoster ops collected by Mr. J. "Whitehead in 

 South Luzon, described as 



ZOSTEROPS LUZONICA, Sp. n. 



Most nearly allied to Z. nigrorum, from Negros, but dis- 

 tinguished by having no black spot in front of the eye, the 

 upper parts brighter olive, and the yellow on the throat and 

 middle of the underparts more golden with no greenish tinge. 

 Total length 3*8 inches, wing 1'8, tail 1"4, tarsus 0'6. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant then exhibited the skulls of two 

 Wood-Partridges, Arhoricula javanica and Tropicoperdix 

 charltoni; pointing out the extremely peculiar supra-orbital 

 chain of bones characteristic of the former species and other 

 members of the genus, but entirely absent in the latter^ as 

 well as in the allied form T. chloropus. Mr. W. T, Blanford 

 had called his attention to a MS. note on a specimen of 

 T. chloropus in the British Museum, from which it was clear 

 that this latter peculiarity had long ago been observed by 

 Mr. J. "Wood-Mason, who first pointed out the supra-orbital 

 chain of bones in Arhoricola ; but the statement respecting 

 the absence of this chain of bones in Tropicoperdix was never 

 published^ and was quite lost sight of. 



Under these circumstances it was thought necessary to 

 separate T. charltoni and T. chloropus from the genus Arhori- 

 cola (in which they had generally been included), and to place 

 them in the genus Tr'opicoperdix, already proposed by Blyth ; 

 the differences in the skull being supplemented by certain 

 external characters, such as the different style of plumage 

 and the peculiar snoiv-ivhite downy patches situated on each 

 side of the body under the wing. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe remarked that in the ' Sarawak 

 Gazette' of last January, Mr. E. Bartlett, the Curator of the 

 Museum at Sarawak, had recorded the occurrence, for the 

 first time in Borneo, of the Shoveler Duck {Spatula clypeata) 

 and of the Sand-Martin [Cotile riparia). Dr. Sharpe stated 



