608 Recent 1. Herat urc. [§)J 



presentation of a memorial to the chairman, IV P. L. Solater. Dr. Sclater 

 was however unable to attend and his death a tow days later is announced 

 at the end of the Bulletin. 



A b R, Wollaston and C. B rlloss, jusl returned from the mountains 

 of Now Guinea, gave an account of their journey and W. U. Ogilvie (.".rant 

 described the following now species from their collection: RaUicula klossi, 



opitta lugubris rost iisonia utafavensis, Anthus wdlas 



and PardigaiOa intermedia. 



lion. Walter Rothschild remarked upon a recent trip to Algeria. 



The following new forms are described. By Col. S. Clarke: SHzorhina 

 fulpina intermedia, Victoria Nyania Dist.j Caprimulgus ludovicianus, 

 S. W. Abyssinia. By Major 11. 11. Harrington: Suya crinigera COOki, 

 Upper Burma; S. c. yunnonensis, Yunnan; Prinia inomata burmanica, 

 Upper Burma; P. i.formosa, Formosa. By W. R. Ogilvie Grant: Rhyn- 

 ^ -. Yemen. 



Claude H. B. Grant proposes the generic name Hc'cromirafra as a sub- 

 stitute for Heieronyx preoccupied. 



British Birds. 1 Vol. Ml. No. 2. .bib. 1913, 



The sense o\ smell in the Cray Lag-Goose. By Man C S Best and 

 Maud D. llaviland.-- A tent was erected near the nest for photographic 

 purposes. When the wind was from the nest the bird exhibited no fear, 

 when the wind was from the tent toward the nest she at first refused to re- 

 main on the nest, showing every appearanee of fright, and later when 

 incubating showed great uneasiness when the wind was in this direction. 

 No explanation for her action seems plausible except that she ' winded ' 

 the photographer. 



Discovery of a Colony oi Tree-Sparrows on lnistrahull Island, Co. 

 Donegal, Ireland. By C. .1. Patten. 



British Birds. Vol. VII. No. 3. August, 1913. 



The bate Philip l.utley Selater. By A. 11. loans. — With portrait. 



The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider. By J. G. Millais. 



British Birds. Vol. \ 11. No. I. September, 1913. 



On the Breeding-Season and Chit eh of the Steganopodes (Cormorant, 

 Shag and Gannet.) by Rev. F. R. C. Jourdain. 



Notes on the breeding Habits of the Common Eider, As observed in the 

 Outer Hebrides, by Mary Q. S. best and Maud O. llaviland. 



On Incubation. By Eric lb Dunlop. — Data are presented showing 

 that when incubation begins with the laying of the first egg the diserepaney 

 in size o\ the young when all are hatched — it' the last eggs hatch — is 

 SUCh that the older, stronger birds, get the bulk oi t lie food, and the youngest 

 bird and sometimes the next older, perish from starvation. Observations 

 on boobies agree in the fact that while two eggs constitute a dutch only 



'Edited by ll. P. Wltherby. Published by Wltherby & Oo., 336 High Hol- 

 bom, London. 



