4130 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS. [Julie 3, 



June 3, 1879. 

 Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary laid upon the table two volumes of original 

 drawings of the birds of India, which had been deposited in the 

 Society's Library by Brigadier-General Andrew Cooke M'Master. 



The two volumes contained about 270 figures of the birds of the 

 Indian Peninsula, mostly named and arranged after Jerdon's ' Birds 

 of India,' and would be of great use in determining Indian birds. 



The drawings were stated to have been mostly made by soldiers in 

 General M 'Master's house at Secunderabad, under his superintend- 

 ence ; but some had been executed by the native artists of Southern 

 India at Trichinopoly and Bangalore. 



Mr. C. L. Jackson, F.Z.S., exhibited the skull of the female Sea- 

 lion (Otaria stelleril) which was lately living in the Southport 

 Aquarium, and which had been killed by the male suddenly jumping 

 from the rock and striking against her. 



Mr. Sclater laid before the meeting a small collection of birds 

 lately forwarded to him by Dr. Adolf Doring, Professor of Chemistry 

 in the University of Cordova in the Argentine Republic, and made 

 the following remarks on them : — 



(1) Lophospingus pusilltjs (Burm.) ; Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 

 18/8, p. 195. 



I quite agree with Dr. Cabanis that the proper situation for this bird 

 is not with Gubernatrix, as placed by Burmeister, but I rather question 

 whether it ought not to be in the same genus as Goryphospingus 

 griseo-cristatus (Lafr. et d'Orb.). 



(2) TjEnioptera mtjrina (Lafr. et d'Orb.) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1872, 

 p. 541 ; Cab. I. c. p. 196. 



Agrees with Mr. Hudson's skins from the Rio Negro of Pata- 

 gonia. 



(3) Cnipolegus cinereus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 58; Cab. I. c. 

 p. 197. 



A female of this interesting species, of which I described the male 

 from a single skin in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. 



(4) Habrura minima (Gould) ; Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. 

 p. 53. 



Hapalura minima, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 197. 

 This is the first example I have ever been able to procure of this 

 scarce and delicate little Tyrannine bird. 



