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Adult female. Differs from the male in being less brightly 

 coloured ; the top of the head, occiput, and nape being olive- 

 brown suffused with pink, and the rest of the upperparts, in- 

 cluding the wing-coverts and scapulars, mostly dull olive-green ; 

 the chest buff (instead of rust- red) tinged with pink, and the rest 

 of the underparts paler buff. 



Total length ca. 7 -6 inches; wing 4 -4; tail 1'9 ; tarsus IS. 



Hah. Seven-Finger Mountains. 



Among the rarities attention was called to the remarkable 

 Magpie {Temnurus niger) with its curious truncate tail-feathers, 

 the beautiful Green Jay (Cissa katsumatce) recently described by 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.Z.S., and a Bulbul (Pycnonotus 

 sinensis) not hitherto recorded from the island. 



The Secretary communicated a paper by Dr. Einar L'onnberg, 

 C.M.Z.S., " On the Variation of the Sea-Elephants." 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 5th April, 1910, at half-past Eight 

 o'clock p.m., when the following communications will be 

 made : — 



1. F. E. Beddard, M.A, F.R.S. 



On the Alimentary Tract of certain Birds, and on the 

 Mesenteric Relations of the Intestinal Loops. 



± R. H. Whitehouse, M.Sc . 



The Caudal Fin of the Teleostomi. 



3. T. M. S. English . 



Some Notes on Tasmanian Frogs. 



The following communications have been received : — 



1. Prof. G. O . Sars, O.M.Z.S. 



Zoological Results of the Third Tanganyika Expedition, 

 conducted by Dr. W. A Cunnington, F.Z.S., 1904-1905.— 

 Report on the Ostracoda. 



