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Proparus guttaticollis, De La Touche, n. sp. 

 Sirailis P. striaticoUi, Verr., sed loris albis^ pileo nuchaque 

 brunneis concoloribus, miiiime nigro notatis, fascia 

 fumosa circumdatis. Long. tot. 4-6 poll., culm. 0*5, 

 alffi 2-05, caudee 2-1, tarsi 0-9.5. 



Hab. Kuatun. 



YUHINA PALLIDA^ Dc La ToUcllG; 11. Sp. 



Y. similis Y. nigrimento, sed ubiqiie pallidior : noteeo ciuera- 

 scente : subtiis Candida^ vix fulvesceiite tincta. 

 Hab. Kuatun. {Cf. H. H. Slater, Ibis, 1897, p. 173.) 



Lepocestes sinensis, Rickett, n. sp. 

 (J [vix ad.]. Similis L. pyrrhotidi, Hodgs., sed pileo pallide 

 brunuescenti-fulvo, nee castaneo striolato : interscapulio 

 nigro, fasciis angustis rufescenti-fulvis iiotato : remigi- 

 bus et rectricibus pallide castaneis, fasciis sequidistanti- 

 bus nigris transversim notatis. Long. tot. 11*2 poll., 

 culm. 1*7, alse 5*7, caudse 3"3, tarsi 1*1. 



Hab. Kuatun. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited a set of fourteen photographs 

 containing figures of the eggs and nests of the birds of North 

 Queensland which had been transmitted to him by Mr. D. 

 Le Souef , of Melbourne, and called special attention to those 

 representing Fodargvs papuens'is, Lalage leucomelcena, and 

 Sterna ancestheta, the last being placed under a Pandanus 

 palm. These photographs had been sent by Mr. Le Souef 

 to illustrate his papers on new or rare Australian birds' 

 eggs to be published in ' The Ibis.'' 



Mr. N. F. TiCEHURST exhibited a specimen of the Icterine 

 Warbler {Hypolais icterina) shot on the 1st of May, 1897, 

 at Burwash, in Sussex. 



Dr. F. Penrose exhibited a beautiful example of an albino 

 Skylark [Alauda arvensis) obtained on Salisbury Plain 

 during the past winter. 



Mr. H. E. S. Upcher exhibited some eggs of the South- 

 African Goshawk [Astur tachiro) taken in the Drakensberg 

 Mountains in Natal. 



