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Sharpe^ which may or may not be the young of /. a. archi- 

 pelagicus, and which certainly occurs in Borneo side by 

 side with the latter, as is proved by the specimens from 

 Trusan collected by A. H. .Everett. 



Mr. M. J. NicoLL described and exhibited examples of 

 a new subspecies of Grass- Warbler from Egypt : — 



SCOTOCERCA INQUIETA INNESI, Subsp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to S. i. saharcB, but differs 

 in having a pure white superciliary stripe, the black stripes 

 on the crown of the head more clearly defined, and the cheeks 

 pure white. Upperparts pale sandy brown ; crown of the 

 head paler than the mantle and broadly and clearly streaked 

 with black ; superciliary stripe white ; a blackish streak 

 through the eye ; ear-coverts pale tawny buff ; chin, throat, 

 and upper breast white streaked with black ; lower breast 

 and sides of the body tawny buff; middle of the abdomen 

 white ; quills and wing-coverts hair-brown edged with lighter 

 brown ; rectrices blackish-brown, except the middle pair, 

 which are brown, the two outer pairs tipped with whitish- 

 buff. Iris yellow ; bill horn-brown ; tarsi and toes brownish- 

 flesh-colour. 



Total length 4-5 inches ; culmen '5 ; wing 2*0 ; tail 2*0 ; 

 tarsus •75. 



Hab. Wadi Hof, near Cairo, Egypt. 



Type in the British Museum : c? . 14. ii. 08 : M. J. Nicoll 

 coll. 



Obs. This new subspecies is named after Dr. Walter 

 Innes, Curator of the Zoological Museum, School of 

 Medicine, Cairo. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited eggs of certain species of 

 birds and made the following remarks : — 



Hypolais icterina. — Nest and four eggs, taken near the town 

 of Tara on the Irtish lUver, about 57" N. and 74° E. This 

 is most interesting, as I find no reliable data of this Warbler 

 having hitherto nested east of the Ural, and the present 

 record extends the area of its breeding-range considerably. 



