Oniithologhts' Club. 433 



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



Members present : — E. Bidwell, W. T. Blanfokd^ F.R.S., 

 W. Chamberlain, E. Hartert, A. P. Loyd, E. W. Gates, 

 W. R. Ogilvie Grant, F. Penrose, R. H. Read, Hon. W. 

 Rothschild, Howard Saunders, H. Seebohm, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, G. E. Shelley, W. B. Tegetmeier, A. Trevor- 

 Battye, H. M. Upcher, C. J. Wilson. 



Visitors : Capt. B. L. Sclater, R.A., G. L. Sclater, R.N., 

 Dr. A. Donaldson Smith (Philadelphia). 



Mr. E. W. Gates exhibited some skius of birds recently 

 procured by him in the Shan States, amongst which was an 

 apparently new species of Iwulus, which he proposed to call 



IXULUS CLARKI, Sp. n. 



Similis /. humili, Hume, sed dorso cinereo nee brunneo, 

 pileo saturate umbrino, nee sicut in /. humili dorso 

 concolore, macula argentescente ad latera colli posita, 

 distinguendus. Long. tot. 5 poll., alse 2"45. 



This species was named after Mr. C.C. S. Clark, who had 

 greatly assisted Mr. Gates in his ornithological work on 

 Mount Byingyi. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited specimens of the 

 extinct Chcetoptila angustipluma from Hawaii, Loxops ivol- 

 stenholmei from Gahu, and also the adult male, female, and 

 young male of Drepanornis bruijnii. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S. , made some remarks on the 

 Owls of the Indian Region, with special reference to the 

 following species : — Strix de-roepstorffi, (not to be separated 

 from S. flammea) , Carine jndchra (to be united to C. brama), 

 Glaucidium radiatum and G. malabaricum (not specifically 

 distinct) , Ninox lugubris, N. hurmanica, and N. scutulata (to 

 be united) ; Scops modestns { = S. balli), S. lempiji, S. mala- 

 baricus, S. griseus { = S. bakhaiiKGna), tiud S. lettia all belong- 

 ing to one species ; S. pennata ( = S. giu) and 8. sunia also to 

 be united ; and S". mcobaricus= S. sunia. The genus Huhua, 

 be stated, should be kept distinct from Bubo. 



