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Falcons, the Great Auk, &c.) were fine examples of the late 

 Mr. Hancock's skill in taxidermy. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke called attention to three species of 

 birds hitherto unrecognized in Franz Josef Land. Of these, 

 he exhibited a skin of the Shore-Lark {Otocorys alpestris), 

 and also one of Bonaparte's Sandpiper [Trtnga fuscicollis 

 Vieill.), obtained on June 28th, by Mr. Bruce, of tlie 

 Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition. The occurrence of the 

 latter species was remarkable, inasmuch as its Arctic range 

 was only known to extend from Greenland westward to 

 Point Barrow, Alaska. The third unrecorded species was 

 the Purple Sandpiper (Tringa striata Linn.), the eggs and 

 downy young of which were obtained. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant exhibited, on behalf of 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe (absent, owing to illness), a few skins 

 from a collection of birds made in Mashonaland by 

 Mr. J. Lawrence Sowerby, late of the B. S. A. Co. Police. 

 Among these were examples of several interesting species, 

 including Melierax meehoivi, Monticola angolensis, &c., and 

 a new Barbet, which Dr. Sharpe proposed to call 



Stactol^ma sowerbyi, sp. n. 

 Similis S. anchieta, sed mento albo, gutture et praepectore 

 nigricantibus, gastrsei plumis albido apicatis, tibiis albis, 

 distinguenda. Long. tot. Q>-Q poll., alse 3"7o. 



Mr. Grant also read descriptions of three new species of 

 birds recently obtained by Messrs. C. B. Rickett and 

 J. de La Touche in the Province of Fohkien : — 



1. Cryptolopha sinensis Rickett, sp. n. 



Like C. castaneiceps Hodgs., but the breast and belly are 

 uniform yellow and only the outermost pair of tail-feathers 

 have the inner web white. Wing T 85-2*0 inches. 



2. Cettia sinensis La Touche, sp. n. 



Nearest to C. fortipes, but the throat, fore-neck, middle of 

 the chest, and breast white ; sides, flanks, and vent snufl"- 



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