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Seebohm, R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), E. CAVENnisH 

 TayloRj a. Trevor-Battye, Col. Yerbury, John Young. 



Visitors: Dr. Cotman, J. H. Fleming (Toronto), Edward 

 Haggard, H. Stevens, R. Warren. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant gave an account of his recent 

 expedition to the Salvage Islands, between the Canaries and 

 Madeira, and exhibited specimens of some of the most 

 interesting of the species obtained by him; among these 

 were examples of Pelacjodroiaa marina and Oceanodroma 

 cryptoleucura (see Wils. & Evans, Aves Hawaienses, partiv.). 



Col. Yerbury gave some details of his visit to Aden 

 during the past winter, when he had been successful in 

 identifying several species of birds which had previously 

 been undetermined. 



Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited and made remarks on 

 some specimens of Pseudototamis guttifer and Eurhino- 

 rhynchus pygmceus, recently received by him in a collection 

 from the mouth of the A moor River. 



Mr. E. LoRT Phillips sent for exhibition specimens of 

 new species of Merula and Corvus from Somaliland. These 

 two species had been discovered during the past winter 

 spent by him in that country. These he proposed to call 



Merula ludovici^, sp. n. 

 Similis M. simillima et M. nigropileo ex peninsula Indica, 

 sed facie laterali et gutture toto uigerrimis facile dis- 

 tinguenda. Long. tot. 8*3 polL^ culm. 0*8^ alse 4"65, 

 caudae 3*9, tarsi 1-2. 



Corvus edited, sp. n. 

 C. similis C. corone, sed minor, et corporis plumis ad basin 

 dimidiatim pure albis, alis minimi viridi nitentibus sed 

 purpurascenti-chalybeis distinguendus. Long. tot. 16'5 

 poll., culm. 1-95, alae 12"4, caudse 6-2, tarsi 2. 



Mr. Bidwell exhibited an old model of a Great Auk's 

 egg, believed to have been made in France about the year 

 1853, and undoubtedly one of the first models ever made. 



