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undertook to inquire of the surviving members and connexions of 

 the Dalton family, and, fortunately again, one of the latter, being 

 Mr. George Clarke of Tanfield House, Bedale, a son-in-law of Captain 

 Dalton, was found, who not only remembered the specimen perfectly 

 well, having seen it ' scores of times,' but produced an old manu- 

 script note he had made on the margin of a ' Bewick ' (in which he 

 had been accustomed to record ornithological observations), to the 

 effect that this bird was ' found dead on the Bridge at Tanfield,' and 

 had been given to his father-in-law, who had it ' preserved by the 

 late John Stubbs of Ripon, fishing-tackle maker and bird-stuffer.' 

 Mr. George Clarke also remembered the owner having several times 

 refused the offer of twenty guineas for the specimen, and after his 

 death had looked in vain for the specimen, which, it appears, had been 

 put away in a lumber-room and wholly forgotten. I think, therefore, 

 that no doubt can be entertained of our having before us the 

 remains of the very bird which was found dead at Tanfield, as 

 recorded by Gould, and that we are much indebted to the gentlemen 

 concerned in hunting out this specimen, which had so long dis- 

 appeared." 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited on behalf of Lord Lilford some 

 specimens of a Titmouse obtained by Dr. Guillemard in Cyprus, and 

 made the following remarks : — 



" I have pleasure in exhibiting three specimens of a Titmouse 

 from Cyprus, allied to Parus ater, which appears to me to be 

 worthy of specific distinction, and for which I propose the name 

 Parus Cypriotes. The specimens in question were collected by Dr. 

 Guillemard near the Kikko Monastery, Cyprus, at an altitude of 

 4000 feet, and, as will be seen, differ from Parus ater in having the 

 upper parts brownish as in Parus britannicus, but rather darker, in 

 having the white nuchal patch almost obsolete, and in having the 

 black on the throat extended much further down than \\\ Parus ater, 

 thus covering a much larger area. The underparts are tinged with 

 buff, the flanks and under tail-coverts being much darker in tint. 



" This form is nearly allied to Parus amodius from the Himalayas, 

 and on comparison with a series will, I think, prove to be also nearly 

 allied to Parus michaloivsJui, from the Caucasus." 



Mr. Boulenger exhibited a living specimen of a rare African 

 Batrachian, Xenopus Icevis, Daud., one of the few representatives of 

 the Jfflossa, which had been sent to him by Mr. Leslie, F.Z.S., of 

 Port Elizabeth. The specimen, a breeding male, showed closely-set 

 fine black asperities, forming a band along the upper surface of each 

 finger ; copulatory asperities had not previously been noticed in 

 Xenopus. Another point of interest resides in the curious position 

 of the hand. When the animal is at rest the hand is bent sideways 

 and inwards, with the fingers superposed instead of on the same 

 horizontal plane, so that the inner finger only touches the ground ; 

 the outer surface (which corresponds to the lower in other frogs) is 



