Ornithologists' i'lub. IIT" 



Mr. Philip Crowley exhibited a curious buff-coloured 

 variety of the Whinchat {Pratincola rubetra) obtained near 

 Cromer during the late autumn. 



Mr. T. DiGBY PiGOTT showed a fine series of Guillemots' 

 eggs^ procured from the Bempton Cliff's. 



A letter was read from Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, with 

 reference to a communication from Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown 

 which had appeared in the last number of 'The Ibis,' re- 

 specting the discovery of the Snow-Bunting's nest in Banff"- 

 shire. Mr. Grant reminded the meeting that he had verbally 

 described the share in the discovery taken by Messrs. L. 

 Hiuxman, Eagle Clarke, and others, and stated that a letter 

 would be sent to ' The Ibis ' on the subject. The Editor 

 of the ' Bulletin ' added that the omission of the two names 

 above mentioned was purely accidental. 



Mr. F. J. Jackson exhibited a specimen of a curious Bush- 

 Shrike Avhich he had found on his last expedition into 

 Eastern Africa — a young male, procured by him in the 

 Mauungu Wilderness in December 1891 ; and on the return 

 journey in April 1893 he obtained an adult male between 

 Tsavo and Kuifumika. The species was a dwarf form of 

 Dryoscopus gambensis, but was so much smaller that there 

 could be no difficulty in its recognition. Mr. Jackson 

 proposed to call it 



Dryoscopus pringlii, sp. n. 



Similis D. gambensi, sed valde minor : aliX vix 2"75 poll, 

 (nee 3"7 ut in D. gambensi). 



Mr. E. Hargitt described a new species of Picumnus 

 recently received by the British Museum as 



^- Picumnus salvini, sp. n. 



Similis P. undulato ex Guiana, sed gastrsei plumis medialiter 



nigro-guttatis, margine fusco prajcinctis : gutturis } -f 

 plumis nigro terminatis, sed macula mediana nigra nulla / 

 distinguendus. 

 Hab. adhuc ignota. 



