OniUlioIogisls' Club. 443 



Mr. Rothschild also made some remarks on the few birds 

 recently observed by him near Bordighera. 



Mr. ScLATER had, curionsly enough, found in tlie bird-shop 

 of Peracino, at Cannes, four examples of a bird which he 

 had never seen alive before — the Masked Hawfinch {Cocco- 

 thraustes personatus) of Japan — and had purchased them for 

 the Zoological Society for a trifling sum. Mr. Sclater 

 exhibited two of these birds in their cage to the meeting. 



Mr. E. Bid WELL exhibited a new field-glass, which he 

 considered to be likely to prove of great service to orni- 

 thologists. 



Mr. Hartert made some remarks on the system of 

 labelling birds adopted in the Tring Museum, drawing 

 particular attention to the red label which was used for 

 the easy identification of typical specimens. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes made some very interesting remarks on 

 birds observed by him during his expedition to the Altai 

 Mountains, with especial reference to the boundary-lines of 

 the Eastern and Western Palsearctic Region. 



Mr. L. W. WiGLEswoRTH sent the following note to the 

 meeting : — 



" Pachycephaia chlorura, Gray, of the New Hebrides, 

 belongs to a group of P achy cepli alee in which the coloration 

 of the sexes differs considerably, and the female was described 

 as an Eopsaltria by Gray and named by him (B. Trop. Is. 

 1859, p. 21) Eopsaltria cucullata, from a single specimen in 

 the British Museum obtained by Macgillivray in Aneiteum 

 Island. 



"A similar mistake by Verreaux & Des Murs has been 

 pointed out by Dr. Oustalet (Bull. Soc. Pliilom. Paris, 

 1879, p. 219) in the case of Eopsaltria caledonica (Gm.) 

 and Pachycephala morariensis, Verr. & Des M., of New 

 Caledonia, the former name having been given to a female 



