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Gallery in the British Museum, which now possessed two 

 adult male examples. The first, procured through the good 

 offices of Mr. Rowland Ward, was one of a pair of adult 

 males which had been killed at Milldcn, Forfarshire, on the 

 1st of October, 1900, by Mr. J. L. Cadwalader. The second 

 male was presented to the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York. Subsequently a second adult male 

 was presented to the British Museum by Lord Tweedmouth 

 but bears no particulars regarding its capture. Mr. Grant 

 had never seen a female example of this rare hybrid, nor had 

 lie previously examined young birds, which appeared to be of 

 very special interest. 



Mr. P. F. BuNYARD exhibited a large series of eggs of the 

 Red-backed Shrike {Lanius coUurio, Linn.) showing four 

 distinct types, as well as extreme and modified forms and 

 varieties. Among the latter some remarkable clutches were 

 shown. 



Mr. BuNYAHD also showed a series of eggs of the Nightin- 

 gale (Daulias luscinia (Linn.)) and of the Garden-Warbler 

 (^Sylvia hortensis, Bechst.). 



Dr. C. B. TicEHURST exhibited a female example of the 

 Blue-headed Wagtail (Motacillajlava) in very worn breeding- 

 plumage, the superciliary stripes, ear-coverts, and some of 

 the feathers on the forehead being white. The bird, which 

 appeared to be an aberration, had been killed in Kent on the 

 19th of June, 1908, and was accompanied by a brood of 

 young birds. 



Trof. Neumann exhibited and described an example of a 

 new subspecies of Shrike from North Angola : — 



HaRPOLESTES AUSTRALIS ANSORGEI, Subsp. U. 



Adult male and female. Similar to H. a. souza from Bihe 

 and North Benguella, but the underside is brownish-olive 

 instead of cinereous, and the chin, upper throat, and middle 

 of the abdomen are white. The secondary- quills are entirely 



