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]Mr. Grant remarked : — " Both this species and the bird 

 described under the name of Cettiarussula by the Rev. H. H. 

 Slater have twelve tail-feathers and belong to the genus 

 Luscimola, the latter species being nearly allied to L. inter- 

 media (Gates). Though L. russula superficially resembles 

 Cettia pallidipes, with which Mr. Slater compared it, it is 

 structurally very difFerent.^^ 



Mr. Grant also exhibited a specimen of the genus Eula- 

 cestoma of De Vis, from Mt. Albert Edward, in S.E. New 

 Guinea; it was apparently a young individual of E. nigri- 

 torque, De Vis, but had no black pectoral collar and a good 

 deal of rufous on the wings. 



Mr. D. Le Souef brought for exhibition nests and eggs 

 of Manucodia gouldi, Graucalus sivainsoni, and Ptilorhis 

 alberti, from Northern Queensland. He also showed, with 

 the aid of a lime-light lantern, a remarkable series of photo- 

 graphs of the nests and eggs of Australian birds, taken by 

 himself during his expeditions in that continent. 



Mr. ScLATER stated that on the 27th of Jime last he had 

 had the pleasure of visiting a nesting-place of the Spoonbill 

 {Platalea leucorodia) in Holland, which he had not previously 

 seen, and had found about 300 pairs breeding there in the 

 reeds on one side of a lake. The lake was fortunately 

 within a large enclosed area owned by a private individual, 

 and strictly preserved. Neither eggs nor birds were allowed 

 to be disturbed, and there was every prospect of this (believed 

 to be the largest breeding-place of the Spoonbill now existing 

 in Holland) being maintained securely. Two other nesting- 

 places of this bird formerly visited by Mr. Sclater, one on 

 the Nieuwerkerker Piatt in 1867 (see Gould^s 'Birds of 

 Great Britain,' iv. pi. 22) and the other on the Horster Meer 

 in 1877 (see ' Ibis,' 1877, p. 413), had been destroyed by the 

 drainage of the swamps in which they were situated. 



