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C. passer'ina, Linn., or, as it is now better called, C. janiai- 

 censis (Maynard), In this form the base of the bill is orange 

 or deep yellow, and markedly different from the birds found 

 in Barbados, Grenada, and St. Vincent. 



I have compared my birds with specimens from Bermuda, 

 as in that form the bill, though practically wholly black, has 

 a slight tinge of horn-colour at the base. 



Mr. Gr. M. Mathews exhibited examples of Ptistes ery- 

 thropterus (Gmel.) [cf. Mathews, Handl. B. Austr. p. 48 

 (1908)] and P. coccineopterus (Gould) \cf. Salvadori, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. XX. p. 482 (1891) ] . Examples of the former had 

 been shot in November 1900 on the Dawson River, N. Queens- 

 land, by Mr. D. Le Souef, who reported that similar birds 

 were to be found inland from Cooktown. Examples of the 

 latter were procured on the same date on the Catherine River, 

 a tributary of the Daly River, in the Northern Territory. 

 Mr. Mathews explained that he had united these two forms 

 in his ' Handlist of the Birds of Australia/ but he was now 

 of opinion that he had made a mistake in doing so and that 

 they ought to be kept separate, the differences, as pointed 

 out by Gould, being quite noticeable. 



The comparative measurements were as follows : — • 



P. erythropterus : total length 12'0-12"7 inches; wing 

 7-9-8-0. 



P. coccineopterus : total length 10'0-10'7 inches ; wing 

 7-2-7-8. 



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

 Assistant-Curator of the Rhodesia Museum at Buluwayo, 

 exhibited two specimens of a new species of Babbling Thrush, 

 which Mr. Chubb proposed to call 



PiNARORNIS RHODESIA, sp. H. 



Similis P. plumoso, Sharpe, sed schistaceo-niger, minime 

 fuliginoso-brunneus, subcaudalibus anguste albo fim- 

 briatis ; alis caudaque albis, sicut in P. plumoso, 

 notatis. Long. tot. circa 9*5 poll., culm. 0"85, alse 4*6, 

 caudae 4"65, tarsi 1*25. 

 Hab. Silosi, Matopos Hills, Rhodesia. 



