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lowish, with broad black cross-bands ; abdomen with indistinct 

 yellowish and dusky cross-bars. Otherwise like the male. 



Hab. Mount Victoria, in the Owen Stanley Range, British 

 New Guinea, at elevations of from 5000 to 7000 feet. 



Types in the Tring Museum. 



Professor Menzbier forwarded the description of an 

 apparently new species of Tawny Owl from Transcaucasia, 

 with the following remarks : — 



" In the summer of 1894 a friend of mine, Mr. Willkonsky, 

 in Batum, received a nestling of an Owl in down, captured 

 in the marsh near that town. Some time after, the Owl 

 assumed its adult dress, which was remarkable for its very 

 dark brown general colour, with some ferruginous marks on 

 the scapulars ; and now, after new moulting, the bird is as 

 dark as before, and even darker, always with a white bill. 

 At first 1 thought that this specimen was but a merely 

 individual melanism of Syrnium alnco ; but in the spring of 

 this year I received from Mr. Willkonsky a skin of another 

 specimen coloured in the same manner as the first, which had 

 been obtained in a vineyard in the district of Shushov. After 

 a careful examination of this specimen, I am now convinced 

 that this Owl belongs to a very good new species, differing 

 from Syrnium aluco both in its general colour and character 

 of markings, as may be seen from the following diagnosis. 

 I have named the species after Mr. Willkousky : — 



" Syrnium willkouskii, sp. n. 

 " S. magnitudine S. aluconis, remigibus, ut in 8. alucone, 

 denticulatis. Obscure fuscum, facie pedibusque fusco- 

 atris ; supra indistincte nigro striatum, subtus magis 

 ferruginescens, striis dilutis longitudinalibus fusco-atris. 

 Remigibus rectricibusque rufescenti-fuscis, hand trans- 

 fasciatis. Collari albo vel cinereo nuUo loco prteseuti. 

 Rostro albido, iridibus fusco-atris. Long. 12'' 3'", 

 caud. 7" 5'". 



" Hab. Transcaucasia.'^ 



Dr. BowDLER Sharps exhibited skins of two new species 

 of East- African birds, for wliich he proposed the following 

 names : — 



