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the six pages which the B. 0. C. had promised to insert 

 in the ' Bulletin,' twice a session, in connection with the 

 reporting o£ the proceedings of the Oological Club. The 

 cost of the Report of the Proceedings of the Oological Club 

 in connection with the Dinner held in the month of September 

 would be entirely defrayed by the Oological Club, as the limit 

 of twelve pages for last year had already been exceeded. 



Mr. J. H. GuRNEY drew attention to some ancient 

 drawings of birds and other animals, supposed to be from 

 eight to ten thousand years old, which had been discovered 

 by Colonel Willoughby Verner and the Abbe Breuil in the 

 caverns of southern Spain, and remarked that they were of 

 Neolithic origin. 



Lord Rothschild and Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a new 

 Thrush from Ceram^ which they described as follows : — 



Turdus joiceyi, sp. nov. 



Adult. Upperside dark chestnut-brown, merging into 

 brownish slaty-black on the back and rump. Wings 

 brownish- black with indistinct pale brown narrow edges 

 to the outer webs ; middle row of upper wing-coveris 

 with white tips, forming one white bar across the wing. 

 Rectrices brownish-black. Sides of head and neck, chin, 

 throat, fore-neck, chest, and sides dull black, the latter with 

 white fringes to the feathers ; middle of breast and abdomen 

 white, under tail-coverts dull black with wide white tips ; 

 under wing-coVerts black, the outer ones with white tips. 

 Bill (in skin) black, legs and feet dark brown. Wing 93 mm., 

 tail 65, culmen from forehead 21, tarsus 35'5. 



Hab. Ceram, 



Type collected by the brothers Pratt in the high moun- 

 tains of Ceram, during their collecting expedition for 

 Mr. Joicey, to whom the Tring Museum is obliged for the 

 type-specimen. 



This Thrush was twice seen by Stresemann during bis 

 successful expedition, but was not secured. It is a near 



