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Genus Insts. 
Ipis pAPILLOsA (Temm.). Warty-HEADED Isis. 
This Ibis is more common than the Black-headed, and is fond of 
open places, as well as the sandy shores of the larger streams and 
rivers. They are seen in flocks in the open country, picking up in- 
sects; the stomach of one which I shot contained nothing but the 
heads, legs, and wing-cases of locusts; that of a second was full of 
large grasshoppers, and a lizard; that of a third was filled with the 
chrysalides ? of butterflies. At the approach of evening the Warty 
Ibis retires to thick trees to roost, uttering its loud and discordant 
ery. It breeds during the months of February, March, April, May 
and June, laying as many as three, and probably four eggs, of a pale 
bluish-white, slightly streaked and spotted with pale brown, 2545 in. 
in length, by nearly 1,4 in. in width. I found the nest of this Ibis 
built on the top of a peepul tree (a species of Banian), and containing 
three young birds, in the month of March. 
April 24, 1855. 
John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
The following paper was read :— 
1. ON SOME NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES OF BIRDS IN THE 
Drersy Museum at LiverRPoo.. 
By Pature Lutury Sciater, M.A. 
(Aves, Pl. LXXXV.—LXXXVIII.) 
The zoological collection of the late Earl of Derby, now at Liver- 
pool, contains one of the largest and finest series of birds at present 
im existence, many of the examples being valuable not only for their 
rarity, but also as types of species described long ago by Latham in 
his ‘ General History’ and other works, and which are hardly to be 
recognized without examination of the original specimens. : 
Mr. Thomas Moore, the present Curator, is busily engaged in 
arranging this mass of materials, and affords every facility to those 
who are anxious to inspect any of the objects committed to his care. 
Among the birds I have had an opportunity of examining there 
during a recent short visit are the following, which I venture to 
characterize as new. 
1, CoNIROSTRUM FERRUGINEIVENTRE, Sclater. (Pl. LXXXV.) 
C. cerulescenti-schistaceum, pileo et alis caudaque intus nigri- 
cantibus : superciliis latis et elongatis albis: subtus intense 
Serrugineum aut ferrugineo-rufum. 
Long. tota 4°9, alee 2°75, caudee 2:0. 
Hab. in Bolivia. 
