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of the last-named Falcon in the Museum has the under tail- 

 coverts and thighs bluish grey like the sides of the body. 

 Whether Falco ernesti (as I have named the bird, after 

 Mr. Ernest Hose) is confined to Borneo I cannot yet tell, 

 but I think that it is very likely to be found to be the 

 resident form of all the Indo-Malayan islands, as a speci- 

 men procured by Mr. Maitland-Heriot in Manila seems 

 certainly referable to it. 



Ehizothera longirostris. 



Rhizothera longirostris (T.) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 183. 



A male and female from 4000 feet, procured in February 

 and March. 



LII. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 

 No. XIX. (June 30th, 1894.) 



The eighteenth meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of June, 1894. 



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



Members present: — A. H. Evans, A. H. Everett, W. R. 

 Ogilvie Grant, E. Hargitt, E. Hartert, L. H. Irby, 

 A. P. LoYD, J. G. MiLLAis, R. H. Read, Hon. W. Roth- 

 schild, Howard Saunders, R. Bowdler Sharpe, G. E. 

 Shelley, Johnson Wilkinson, C. A. Wright, John Young. 



Visitor : Mr. Nesham. 



The Secretary and Treasurer presented a Draft of the 

 amended Rules, and these were adopted nem. con. He then 

 stated that the Club contained 102 Members who had paid 

 their subscriptions, and that there was a substantial working 

 balance in the treasury. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited skins of three rare Parrots {Ara 

 auricollis, Pionus lacerus, and Chrysotis tucumana) , obtained 

 by Herr Paul Neumann in Tucuman and Jujuy, Argentina 



