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in the first edition o£ his ' Saggio sulla storia Naturale del 

 Chili,' 1782, p. 258, Molina distinctly describes a Jacana 

 {Parra chilensis) and says " la sua fronte e guernita di una 

 carnosita rossa, divisa in due lobi.'^ In the 2nd ed. 1810, 

 p. 206, he makes this still more certain. 

 Dr. Lowe therefore proposed the name 



Belonopterus cayennensis molina, subsp. nov., 



and designated as the type an adult male which is in the 

 British Museum, collected during the voyage of the-' Alert' 

 by Dr. Cpppinger at Taleakuano, South Chile, on Sept. 22ncl, 

 1879. No. 80.8.3.27. 



Lord Rothschild described the following new sub- 

 species : — 



TMnocorus rumicivorus venturii, subsp. nov. 



cJ ad. Differs from Th. r. rumicivorus in its smaller size 

 and lighter back, the feathers of the back, secondaries, 

 wing-coverts, and tertials being paler brown, with wider 

 pale edges and bands ; rump much paler, more blue-grey. . 



Wing 109-112 mm. {Th. r. rumicivorus 115-118 mm.). 



3 (? c? , Barracas al Sud, Buenos Aires. S. Venturi Coll. 

 (Type in Tring Mus., No. 603. 4. vi. 1901, cS)- 



Lord Rothschild also exhibited a specimen of the " Mt. 

 Kenia Ibis," Oreoibis akleyorum Chapm., and remarked that 

 it was the first specimen recorded to have come to Europe, 

 the type-pair and chiek having been taken to America by its 

 discoverers, Mr. and Mrs. Akeley. The present specimen 

 was obtained on the lower slopes of Mt. Kenia by Mr. Noel 

 van Someren at about 6000 feet elevation. 



Mr. C. W. Mackwoeth-Peaed exhibited a new subspecies 

 of Francolin, which he proposed to name 



Francolinus hildebrandti lindi, subsp. nov. 



He said this is a wellrdefined race of F. hildebrandti, and 

 differs from all the others in the great reduction of the black 



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