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of the Royal Museum at Bangkok. He proposed for it tlie 

 name of 



Sturnopastor floweri, sp. n. 

 S. similis S. superciliari, srd supra niger, dorso pileo con- 

 colore nee brunneo : gutturis nigredine magis cxteiisa, 

 regione prjepectondi quoque nigrsi : corpore reliquo 

 subtus alboj nee vinaceo-griseo adumbrato. Long. tot. 

 90 poll., culm. 1'3, ake 4-8^ caudne 2*75, tarsi 1-45. 



Dr. Sh.arpe also made some remarks on tlie Black-headed 

 Orioles of Africa^ and pointed out that the Oriole of Gaboon 

 had been hitherto confounded with 0. brachyrliyTtchus, from 

 which it dift"( red in being smaller and in having a conspicuous 

 yellow collar^ the yellow also being spread over the mantle. 

 He proposed to call it 



OrIOLUS LyETIOR, Sp. U. 



Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker sent for exhibition some specimens 

 of Sturnus wiicolot' procured in Morocco in the spring and 

 summer of the present year. It was evident that the 

 birds killed in June were in the fullest breeding-plumage 

 and had black bills^ whereas specimens killed in winter and 

 early spring had yellow bills. 



Mr. Whitaker also sent for exhibition skins of two 

 apparently new species of birds from Morocco, which were 

 described briefly as follows : — 



Garrulus (enops, sp. n. 



G. similis G. minori, sed minor, et facie latcrali et gutture 

 toto vinaeeis, minime albis, distinguendus : pileo late 

 nigro striolato. Long. tot. 12"2 poll., ala? 6*4. 



Rhodopechys aliena, sp. n. 



R. similis R. savgninea, sed rostro debiliore, superciliis et 

 torque collari cineraceis, nee fulvescenti-albis vel roseis : 

 gutture pallide roseo, nee cinnamomeo-brunneo distin- 

 guenda. Long. tot. 6*0 poll,, alee 4*L 



The Chairman exhibited an interesting autograph letter 

 of John Latham, addressed to M. Olivier of Paris, and re- 



