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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

  

  for 
  Nyassaland. 
  These 
  collections 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  on 
  the 
  

   Nyassa 
  Highlands 
  at 
  Zomba 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Milanji 
  Plateau^ 
  

   and 
  were 
  of 
  great 
  interest^ 
  as 
  showing 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  

   range 
  of 
  the 
  South-African 
  Fauna 
  across 
  the 
  watershed 
  of 
  

   the 
  Zambesi. 
  Twelve 
  species 
  were 
  new 
  to 
  science. 
  

  

  No. 
  III. 
  (Dec. 
  1st, 
  1892.) 
  

   The 
  second 
  regular 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Club 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  the 
  Mona 
  

   Hotel, 
  Henrietta 
  Street, 
  Covent 
  Garden, 
  on 
  Wednesday, 
  

   November 
  16th, 
  1892. 
  

  

  Chairman 
  : 
  Howard 
  Saunders. 
  

  

  Members 
  present 
  : 
  — 
  F. 
  E. 
  Beddard, 
  F.R.S., 
  E. 
  Bidwell, 
  

   H. 
  E. 
  Dresser, 
  A. 
  P. 
  Loyd, 
  E. 
  Neale, 
  Robert 
  H. 
  Read, 
  

   Capt. 
  Savile 
  Reid, 
  Count 
  T. 
  Salvadori, 
  Henry 
  Seebohm, 
  

   Capt. 
  Horace 
  Terry, 
  E. 
  Cavendish 
  Taylor, 
  H. 
  T. 
  Wharton, 
  

   John 
  Young. 
  

  

  Guest 
  : 
  Ernst 
  Hartebt. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  Members 
  

   who 
  had 
  joined 
  the 
  Club 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  16th 
  of 
  November 
  

   was 
  72. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Henry 
  Seebohm 
  exhibited 
  two 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  

   Siberian 
  Pectoral 
  Sandpiper 
  (Tringa 
  acuminata) 
  which 
  had 
  

   been 
  obtained 
  on 
  the 
  Norfolk 
  coast. 
  These 
  were 
  the 
  only 
  

   authentic 
  instances 
  of 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  Great 
  

   Britain. 
  A 
  series 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  T. 
  acuminata 
  and 
  of 
  its 
  

   American 
  ally, 
  T. 
  macidata, 
  were 
  placed 
  on 
  the 
  table, 
  and 
  the 
  

   differences 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  species, 
  as 
  also 
  their 
  geographical 
  

   distribution, 
  were 
  pointed 
  out. 
  

  

  Count 
  Salvador: 
  gave 
  diagnostic 
  characters 
  for 
  two 
  new 
  

   species 
  of 
  Pigeons 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Phhgoenas, 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  PhLOO(EN4S 
  BIMACULATA, 
  Sp. 
  U. 
  

  

  Phlogatnas 
  tristigmata, 
  Gould 
  (nee 
  Temm.), 
  B. 
  Asia, 
  vi. 
  

   pi. 
  59 
  (1873). 
  

   Ph. 
  Ph. 
  tristigmatfP 
  simillima, 
  sed 
  cervice 
  in 
  medio 
  omnino 
  

  

  