424 Bulletin of the British 



XXXIX. — Bulletiii of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XVI.-XVIII. 



No. XVI. (March 30th, 1894.) 



The fifteenth meeting of the Ckib was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, 

 March 21st, 1894. 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present: — E. Bidwell, Walter Chamberlain, 

 S. R. Clarke, Philip Crowley, W. E. De Winton, C. H. 

 Caton Haigh, F. Menteith Ogilvie, II. J. Pearson, 

 T. DiGBY PiGOTT, C.B., Howard Saunders, Henry See- 

 bohm, R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



Visitor: Dr. F. A. Jentink (Leyden). 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant sent for exhibition a skin of a 

 Babbling-Thrush, with the following observations : — 



''In looking through a collection of birds made by 

 Mr. L. A. Waddell, F.L.S., in Sikhim, I find a specimen 

 of a new species of Garrulax, which I propose to call after 

 its discoverer, 



" Garrulax waddelli, sp. nov. 



" Like G. pectoralis, but with the rufous collar almost 

 obsolete ; the superciliary stripe grey, not white ; ear-coverts 

 pale buff with blackish shaft-stripes, instead of black, or 

 black streaked with white, and the tail rather narrowly 

 tij^ped with ashy, whereas in G. pectoralis it is broadly 

 tipped with white. 



" Hab. Rungeet (Rangit) River, Sikhim, 4000 feet. 



'' This specimen — an adult female, obtained in April 1891 — 

 will come into Dr. Sharpe's ' Key' (see Cat. B. vii. p. 431) 

 after G. albigularis, which has the hind neck uniform with 

 the back ; but the words of the ' Key ' should be modified to 

 'uniform or nearly uniform.' The differences between the 

 new species and G. albigularis are of course obvious, the 

 latter having no black pectoral band." 



Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of a Hemipode, forwarded 



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