yoh xxi.] 63 



A discussion followed^ during which instances of so-called 

 " mule " Pheasants laying and hatching eggs were given by 

 Mr. Meade-Waldo and others. 



Mr. Montagu also exhibited two pairs oE Golden Orioles 

 {Oriolus galbula) , shot at the end of last May in Hungary, 

 near Budapest : one pair at Iszaak and the other pair at 

 Szigetcsep. In each case the male and the female were 

 practically identical, and the male appeared to be simply an 

 immature example of this common bird; but in each case 

 the birds had been shot at the nest, and the males were in 

 full song, showing undoubtedly that they were breeding. 

 This would seem to imply that the Oriole takes more than a 

 year to acquire its full plumage, and, like the Crossbill and 

 some other birds, breeds in the immature dress. These facts 

 had not previously been noted either by the local ornitho- 

 logists in Hungary, nor apparently by the Members of the 

 British Ornithologists^ Club. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe, on behalf of Mr. E. C. Chubb, 



Assistant Curator in the Rhodesia Museum, Buluwayo, 



exhibited a specimen of an apparently new species of 

 Poliospiza, which Mr. Chubb proposed to call 



POLIOSPIZA MENNELLI, Sp. n. 



^ . Similis P. gulari, sed supra paulo grisescentior : pileo 

 nigro, late albo striate ; lacie laterali et regione parotica 

 nigris, concoloribus ; subtus albus, minime concolor, 

 sed gutture, pectore et corporis lateribus cinerascenti- 

 brunneo striatis ; abdomine et subcaudalibus albis ; 

 subalaribus et axillaribus cinerascenti-albis. Long. tot. 

 c. 50 poll., culmen 0*5, alse 3"15, caudse 2*0, tarsi 0*55. 

 Hab. Tjoko^s Kraal, Shangani River, Rhodesia, 8. xi. 07. 



Mr. S. J. White exhibited a nest of the Swallow {Hirundo 

 rustica) which had been built on a glass gas-protector in his 

 stable at Crayford, Kent. 



