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Chapada, are in every respect similar to one another. In 

 the Paris Museum there is a fine adult male from Chiquitos, 

 Eastern Bolivia (d^Orbigny coll.). 



" The true T. e. eriphile inhabits Minas Geraes and the 

 northern districts of S. Paulo. I have also seen quite a 

 number of ^ Rio ' skins^ their exact locality being of course 

 unknown. This form is always much larger (males, wing 

 59-62, tail 39-44; females, wing 55-57, tail 331-35 mm.), 

 and the under tail-coverts are uniform bluish-black or dark 

 bronze-green, sometimes narrowly fringed with whitish/^ 



Mr. Hellmayr likewise exhibited two examples of a small 

 Tyrant-bird of the genus Todirostrum. He remarked that 

 the bird with black upperparts agreed with the type of 

 T. picatum, Scl., while the rufous-headed, green-backed 

 specimen belonged to the so-called T. capitale, Scl. There 

 were, however, in the former some rufous feathers to be 

 seen on the fore-part of the crown. Count Berlepsch's 

 suggestion that these two alleged species were male and 

 female of one and the same form proved to be quite correct. 

 The species, which, according to our present knowledge, 

 was only known from Eastern Ecuador, must henceforth be 

 called Todirostrum capitale, Scl. The birds exhibited were 

 obtained on the Rio Napo and formed part of Comte de 

 Dalmas's collection, which was now in the Tring Museum. 



Mr. H. F. WiTHERBY exhibited, on behalf of Mr. E. C. 

 Arnold, a specimen of the American Pectoral Sandpiper 

 {Tringa maculata). Mr. Arnold was in company with 

 Mr. L. E. Dennys, on the Crumbles near Eastbourne, on the 

 21st of September, when the bird rose from some shingle and 

 ■was shot by the latter gentleman. 



Mr, WiTHERBY further exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Arnold, 

 a specimen of the Icterine Warbler {Hypolais iacrina) which 

 had been shot on September 12th, 1907, by Mr. J. V. Young, 

 near Qley, Norfolk. 



