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states that his C. minor is " similar to C. grandis, but much 

 smaller/' The marked specific difference is that the tail is 

 jet-black in the larger, vmiform brown in the smaller species. 

 Of the latter I was the first describer (Ibis, 1882, p. 137), but 

 erroneously identified it with L.fulvipennis (Hombr. & Jacq.), 

 of which I had not seen the type. Clearly Calornis minor 

 (Sharpe No. 2) cannot stand, and I therefore propose for 

 it the name Calornis diclii'oa=^ Sturnoides minor, Rams.=: 

 C. fulvipennis, Tristr. (nee Jacq. & Puch.). 



11. Nycticorax mandibularis. Grant, 

 Native name " Kopi.'^ 



This specimen agrees with the type in wanting the white 

 feathers of the crest, though otherwise fully adult„ 



12. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.). 

 Native name " Clmri." 



XXX. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XXV.-XXVII. 



No. XXV. (March 30tli, 1895.) 



The twenty -fourth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of March, 1895. 



Chairman : Howard Saunders. 



Members present: — E. Bidwell, J. L. Bonhote, W. E. 

 De WiNTON, Ernst Hartert, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, H. J. 

 Pearson, Frank Penrose, R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor), 

 G. E. Shelley, C. A. Wright. 



Visitors : C. E. Fagan, Frederick Gillett, C. B. Ric- 

 kett. 



The Chairman read extracts of letters received from 

 Mr. P. L. ScLATER, relative to birds observed on his excursion 

 to Egypt. It was remarked that all the Gulls seen on 

 the passage out and the Egyptian Kites on the Nile alike 

 carried their feet straight out under the base of the tail. 



