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year. The range of T. leucauchen extended from Chiapas to 

 Panama. This simple explanation o£ summer and winter 

 plumages had only now become possible from a study of the 

 large series of Central American Thrushes collected in every 

 month of the year, as was now the case with the species in 

 the Salvin-Godman Collection, and it would doubtless give 

 the key to the solution of many other knotty questions in tlie 

 Turdidce. For instance, the black bill of Turdus dayuce, 

 Berlepsch (Orn. MB. v. p. 175), was not a specific character, 

 as the describer imagined, but merely an accompaniment of 

 winter plumage, and Dr. Sharpe believed that the last-named 

 bird would have to be united to T. leucauchen. T. phcBO- 

 pygoides of Seebohm was certainly only T. phceopygus in 

 non-breeding plumage. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited an example of the 

 Water-Pipit {Anthus spipoletta) which had been procured 

 by Mr. Caton Haigh on the 3rd of December in Carnarvon- 

 shire. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander showed specimens of some of the 

 new and rare species discovered by him in the Cape Verde 

 Islands, and exhibited the nest and eggs of the Reed-Warbler 

 of the islands {Calamocichla brevipennis) , found by him on 

 his second expedition to the archipelago. 



Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited the skin of a hybrid Pheasant 

 between Phasianus reevesi and Thaumalea picta. This 

 interesting specimen is described in ' The Field ' for Jan. 22, 

 1897. 



Mr. J. H. GuRNEY communicated the following description 

 of a new Goshawk : — 



ASTUR BUTLERI, Sp. U. 



Adult male. Whole of the upper parts bluish grey, lightest 

 on the head ; breast pink, finely barred with white, one in- 

 distinct bar at the end of the tail. No bars on the primaries, 

 secondaries, or under wing-coverts, which are quite white ; 

 in this respect, and in its plain tail, greatly differing from 



