434 Bulletin of the British 



No. LIV. (May 25th, 1898). 



The fifty-third Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 18th of May, 1898. Chairman: P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Twenty-eight Members and two guests were present. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a pair of eggs of the South African 

 Thick-knee {CEdicnemus capensis), forwarded to him by 

 Mr. J. E. Matcham, C.M.Z.S., of Port Elizabeth, as those of 

 the " Dik-kop " of that district. There was one similar egg 

 of the same species in the collection of the British Museum 

 obtained by Mr. E. L. Layard. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a second series of beautiful photo- 

 graphs of the nests and eggs of Australian Birds, transmitted 

 to him by Mr. Dudley Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., Assistant- 

 Director of the Zoological Gardens at Melbourne. Amongst 

 these were figures of the nests of the Victoria Lyre-bird 

 [Menura victoria), the Emu- Wren [Stipiturus malachurus), 

 and the rarely-found nest (with one egg) of Jardine's 

 Caterpillar-hunter {Campephaga jardinii) . 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited the type specimens of two 

 new birds obtained by Mr. A. L. Butler on the Gunong 

 Ijau, Perak, Malay Peninsula, and characterized them as 

 follows : — 



Serilophus rothschildi, sp. n. 



DiflFers from S. lunatus — with which it agrees in the 

 peculiarly shaped tips of the longest primaries — in being 

 darker and greyer above; crown of the head pure grey, not 

 pale rusty brown ; ear-coverts grey, with hardly a tint of 

 brown, while they are pale brown in S. lunatus, and the 

 rufous colour on the secondaries is deeper ; round the eye 

 a narrow ring of white feathers. " Iris greenish brown, 

 mottled with golden specks ; eyelid and base of mandible 



