616 MR. F. M. OGILVIE ON THE [Nov. IS, 



caves would afford undoubted proof of the occurrence of the Saiga 

 in several localities. The Professor has kindly called the present 

 writer's attention to some incidental allusions to the discovery of 

 antelope-remains in the Harz Mountains \ in the vicinity of Quedin- 

 burg". Westeregeln^ and Nuremberg*, as also in the neighbourhood 

 of Kaschau in Hungary'; and it seems probable that, in most 

 instances, these fossils will prove to pertain to the remarkable 

 species under consideration. 



November 18, 1890. 

 Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Menteith Ogilvie, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of the Red- 

 breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapa parva), and made the following 

 remarks ; — 



I have thought this specimen might be of sufficient interest to be 

 exhibited, partly on account of its rarity as a British bird, partly 

 because there seem to be a few errors in the descriptions of this Fly- 

 catcher in the latest ornithological text-books. In the 4th ed. of 

 Yarrell the tail is said to consist of 10 feathers, in place of 12 ; and 

 Mr. Saunders, in his lately published Manual, while he describes 

 the tail as of 12 feathers, states that they all have conspicuous white 

 bases except the central j^^ii^, which are black. In this specimen 

 the four outer feathers on either side have more or less white on 

 their basal halves, but the four central feathers are black. In length 

 this specimen measured 5g inches, in place of 4^ in his description ; 

 the legs were black, aud the irides so dark a brown as to appear 

 black at first sight. 



This bird I shot on the beach at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 

 Sept. 13th, 1890, during a week's visit to that place with a view to 

 watching the autumn migration. 



I flushed it twice from the ' scrub ' ° before I was able to secure 

 it, following it for about five minutes. It uttered no note during 

 this time. Its flight was peaceful and buoyant and always at some 

 height from the ground, differing in this from the other birds I saw 

 in the scrub, chiefly Warblers '', which flew very low and were flushed 

 with some difficulty from their hiding-places. 



The weather during the week was very fine with hot sun, and 

 light wind mostly from the west and north-west. On the loth, 



' H. Grotrian, Zeitschr. deutseh. geol. Ges. vol. sxxii. (1880), p. 751. 

 ^ A. Nehring, ibid. p. 473. 

 ^ A. Nehring, ibid. p. 475. 

 ' A. Nehring, Hid. p. 488. 



« A. Nehring, Berl. Zeitschr. f. Ethnologie, 1881, pp. 103, 106. 

 * As the sea-blite {Sueeda fruticosa) is called, which covers the beach atCley 

 and Blakeney. 



" Willow-Wtens, Chiffchaffk. 



