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Collocalia gigas Hartert & Butler, from the same region 

 and collector. The species, which is the most striking o£ 

 the genus, is only known from the type, which was obtained 

 from the mountains between Selangor and Pahang in the 

 Malay Peninsula, from another example from W. Java, and 

 I believe from one or two specimens from New Gruinea, though 

 I have not yet verified this locality. Mr. Jacobson secured 

 two specimens. 



From East Sumatra he exhibited the types of Cyornis 

 van-luysti Robinson & Kloss. The species is very distinct 

 and is allied to C. rujifrons and C. beccariana from Borneo. 

 It was possibly identical with C. riiecki Oustalet, described 

 from Malacca, which had never been re-collected. With 

 C. unicolor, to which the male has some slight superficial 

 resemblance, it has, of course^ nothing to do. 



Another species of Cyornis, which he owed to the kindness 

 of the authorities of the United States National Museum, was 

 then exhibited : Cyornis hoevelU Meyer, originally described 

 by Meyer from the Tahala Mts._, Celebes. The species has 

 recently been obtained in considerable numbers by Mr. H. 

 C. Raven in Central Celebes. It is closely allied to C. hya- 

 cinthina from Timor and C. kiilini Hartert, from Wetter, but 

 quite distinct from either. 



An interesting Owl was PisorJiina angelince Finsch^ from 

 Eastern Java, the specimen exhibited being the second known. 

 It may be regarded as the Javan representative of the group 

 in which is included P. brookei from the mountains of Borneo 

 and P. solokensis Hartert, from high elevations in Sumatra. 

 Both were rare in collections; but Mr. Kloss and Mr. Robinson 

 had obtained a small series of the latter during their exploi'a- 

 tion of Korinchi Peak, W. Sumatra, in 1914. 



Another interesting bird was a very distinct species of 

 Tree-Babbler, Stacliyris grammiceps Temm. He knew of no 

 specimens in Europe, except the original types figured by 

 Temminck, and possibly one or two in the Barfcels collection 

 in Amsterdam. There were certainly none in England. 



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