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On behalf of Mr, R. M. Bakrington, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 exhibited an immature example of Pallas^s Grasshopper-. 

 Warbler {Locustella certhiola, Pall.), which had been picked up 

 dead at the Eockabill Lighthouse, five miles from the shore, 

 Co. Dublin, on the 28th of September, 1908. He remarked 

 that it was the first time this Eastern Asiatic species had 

 been recorded in Great Britain. A single specimen had been 

 procured by Gatke in Heligoland on the 13th of August previous 

 to the year 1858 [c/. ^ Birds of Heligoland/ p. 312 (1895)]. 



Mr. Barrington also sent for exhibition a specimen of 

 the Little Bunting [Emberiza pusHla, Pall.), which had also 

 been picked up at the Rockabill Lighthouse on the 2nd of 

 October. This was the seventh time this species has been 

 recorded from the British Islands and was the first record from 

 Ireland [r/. Witherby & Ticehurst, Brit. Birds, i. p. 249 

 (1908)]. 



Dr. Percy E. Lowe forwarded the following description 

 of a new subspecies of Quail, which he proposed to name 



Ortyx graysoni panucensis, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Resembles 0. graysoni, Lawr., in having the 

 black of the throat restricted to a narrow and fairly well- 

 defined band, but difiers from it in having the feathers of 

 the breast, abdomen, and flanks streaked with elongate spots 

 of black and white situated on either side of the edges of 

 the webs, and the under tail-coverts heavily spotted with 

 subterminal arrow-shaped black shaft-spots. 



From O. pectoralis, Gould, it diff'ers in lacking the much 

 broader black band of the lower throat and upper breast and 

 in having the underparts streaked, as described above, whereas 

 in O. pectoralis these parts are either uniformly chestnut or 

 liave the feathers very narrowly edged with black or dusky. 



Adult female. Resembles the female of 0. graysoni. 



Hah. Valley of the River Panuco, Tampico, Mexico. 



Obs. Both birds are in full breeding-plumage, and the 

 ovary of the female contained a well-developed egg. 



