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he had formerly described as a distinct species (Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1892, x. p. 110) under the name of T. flavissima, 

 which was also described and figured under this name in the 

 first part of his 'Avifauna of Lay sail.' He said that by 

 the fine series of skins he had lately received from Professor 

 Schauinsland, which were much finer specimens and in 

 better plumage than those originally obtained by Henry 

 Palmer, and also from Prof. Schauinsland's careful obser- 

 vations, it was proved beyond doubt that the two forms were 

 not distinct, T. flavissima being merely the fully adult 

 male of T. cantans. The species would therefore stand as 

 T. cantans. 



Mr. Rothschild further exhibited a specimen of an 

 extremely rare Lark, Mirafra erythropygia (Strickl.), 

 and a Kestrel, Cerchneis alopex, Heugl. The former was 

 known only from Kordofan, and the British Museum 

 possessed no more than one indifferent skin of it. The 

 latter species was previously known from Bogosland, Shoa, 

 and Redjag in Equatorial Africa; the specimens exhibited 

 had, however, been collected by Captain Gitfard at Gambaga, 

 north of Ashanti, and their occurrence so far west was in the 

 highest degree interesting. 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited a pair each of Pyrocephalus 

 dubius Gould, and P. nanus. The former had been described 

 by Gould from one female collected by Darwin on one of 

 tlie Galapagos Islands, but it was not known which of them. 



In the 'Catalogue of Birds/ P. dubius had been united with 

 P. nanus in spite of its inferior size and wider and more 

 distinct superciliary stripe. P. dubius was, however, a per- 

 fectly distinct species and was confined to Chatham Island, 

 while P. nanus occurred on most of the remaining islands of 

 the group. Mr. Ridgway had recognized the distinctness of 

 this form in his excellent Monograph of the Ornithology of 

 the Galapagos Islands, and the series obtained by the Harris 

 expedition fully confirmed his opinion. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a pair of Flycatchers 

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