894 MR. O. THOMA.S OV A>' ANTELOPE [Xov. 30, 



meeting of the Deutsch? ornithologische GessUschaft in Octobor 

 1872, two of them being figured shortly after in the ' Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie' (1873, p. 63, Taf. iii. figg. 37, 38) ; but I think it 

 will be admitted by oologists that the figures leave much to be 

 desired in the way of characterization, and I am greatly indebted 

 to Mr. Dresser for allowing me to exhibit one received by him 

 along with two other eggs and the ne=;t from M. Zarudny through 

 Professor Menzbier. It was obtained at Utch Adji in the Trans- 

 caspian Province, and, as will be seen, is of a very pale greyish- 

 green, with spots and blotches of brownish-grey and greyish-olive, 

 not much unlike some Pies' eggs or those of Perisoreus infaustus, 

 indicating the Corvine affinities of this curious desert-form. It 

 measures 1-07 by -77 inch. The excellent observations on Podoces 

 jKinderi of M. Zarudny, published in the ' Bulletin ' of the 

 Naturalists' Society of Moscow for 1889 (N. S. iii. pp. 455-465, 

 pi. v.), accompanied by figures of its nest, have been most properly 

 quoted by Mr. Dresser in the 'Supplement' to his 'Birds of 

 Europe' (pp. 239-243), and to them I refer for further 

 particulars. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE LI. 



Figs. 1-4. Egg of Tringa suharquata. p. 890. 



5. „ Turdtis varius, p. 8t>2. 



6,7. „ Hiomtione virens, Tp. 893. 



8, 9. „ Emheriza rustica, p. 893. 



10. „ Podoces panderi, p, 893. 



November 30th, 1897. 

 E. T. Newton, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited specimens of a remarkable 

 partially white Antelope of the genus Cervicapra which had been 

 obtained by Mr. E. \. Kirby, E.Z.S., in the mountains of the 

 Lydenburg District of the Transvaal, and read the following 

 account of them contributed by Mr. Kirby himself: — 



" The specimens of this Antelope which are now exhibited were 

 shot by me on a spur of the Steeukamp Berg, about 12 miles distant 

 and to the west of the toMiiship of Kruger's Post ; the circum- 

 stances under which I procured them being as follows. During 

 the autumn of 1896, whilst I was on the Sabi, making ready for 

 my next expedition to Portuguese East Africa, I received an 

 invitation from Mr. Abel Erasmus, Native Commissioner for the 

 Lydenburg District, residing at Kruger's Post, to ride out to his 

 farm for a shot at ' Rooi Rhebuck,' as the Mountain Eeedbuck is 

 styled by Colonists and Boers, it being looked upon as merely a 

 variety of the common Vaal Ehebuck, the only grounds of course 

 for this supposed affinity being the fact that they are usually 

 found on the mountain-ranges in similar localities to those in 



