Ornithologists' Club. 547 



(see Reiclienow, Om. Monatsb. ii. p. 66). These species 

 had not been included in Sclater and Hudson^s ' Argentine 

 Ornithology/ The specimens were duplicates of the Berlin 

 Museum, and had been kindly sent to Mr, Sclater in exchange. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited two eggs of Phibalura flavi- 

 rostris (Fam. Cotingidce), hitherto quite unknown, obtained 

 in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro, and sent to him by Dr. E. A. 

 Goeldi, with a paper describing the nesting of this bird, 

 which would be published in the October number of ' The 

 Ibis.' 



A letter was read from Professor O. TASCHENBERa, of 

 Halle-a/S,, pointing out that the conclusions of Dr. Wick- 

 mann, with regard to the origin of the coloration of bird's 

 eggs {cf. Bull. no. xv, p. xxvi), had already been insisted 

 upon by him in the ' Zoologischer Anzeiger ' for 1885 

 (vol. viii. p. 243) . 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited co-types of Eos 

 histrio talautensis, Zeocephus talautensis, Hermotimia talaa- 

 tensis, Pitta inspeculata, and Oriolus melanisticus, all recently 

 described by Messrs. A. B. Meyer and L. W. Wiglesworth 

 from the Talaut Islands, Kabruang, and Salibabu. 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited some rare Japanese bii'ds, 

 among them a pair of Parus owstoni, Ijima, from Miya- 

 keshima, Seven Islands, Izu, south of Japan. The species 

 had been described in ^Dobutsugaku Zasshi,' no. 62, December 

 1893. Parus owstoni somewhat resembled P. varius, Temm. 

 & Schleg., but differed obviously in its much larger bill and 

 feet and its greater size altogether, in the deep rufous sides of 

 the head and forehead, the mark on the occiput, and the 

 colour of the back. It was not a strictly typical form of 

 the genus Parus. 



Mr. Rothschild laid on the table a typical specimen of 

 < Ait hums polytmus (Linn.), from Jamaica, and two others 



