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tlic two allied species, Parotia sexpennis and P. lawesi, it was 

 evident that the same identity of plumage would be found in 

 tlie immature males and adult females of P. carolce. The 

 young male birds of the latter species had the back, wing- 

 coverts, and rump olive-brown, the outer half o£ the primaries 

 and secondaries chestnut-rufous, the inner half of these quills 

 and tail being dark brown. The breast, flanks, and thighs 

 ■were rufous buff, barred with black. The adult plumage had 

 already been assumed on the head. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited three beautifully-made skins of 

 Falco richardsoni of North America ( J , cJ , ? ) obtained in 

 Lorimer County, Colorado, in December 1891 and February 

 1892, and transmitted to Mr. Sclater by Mr. W. E. Brooks 

 for examination. There was at present only one specimen 

 ( S j^-) of this rare Falcon in the British Museum. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited a nest and two eggs of the 

 Pale Rock-Martin, Ptyonoprogne obsoleta (see Sharpe & 

 Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. vol. i. pi. xvi.), which he had taken 

 on the 25th February last from a ledge of rock in the smaller 

 rock-temple of Abu Simbel, Upper Egypt. The eggs appeared 

 to be quite fresh, but one of them had been unfortunately 

 broken on the journey home. The nest consisted almost 

 entirely of feathers mixed with a few dry hay-straws ; it was 

 very loosely made and placed on a slight basis of dry mud. 



Mr. F. E. Blaauw gave an account of the nesting of a 

 pair of Rufous Tinamous [Rhynchotus riifescens) in his garden 

 at 'sGraveland. Five eggs were laid in a slight nest made 

 by the male, and four young ones hatched. Incubation was 

 undertaken entirely by the cock bird, which only left the nest 

 to feed. The cock also took entire charge of the young brood, 

 but it had not been found necessary to remove the hen from 

 his company. The fact of the male's incubation had already 

 been recorded by Mr. Bartlett (see P. Z. S. 1868, p. 114), 

 but it Avas interesting to have it confirmed. In ' Argentine 

 Ornithology' (vol. ii. p. 110) the question had been left 

 unsettled by Messrs. Sclater and Hudson. 



