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Acanthopnenste trocMloides ogilvie-granti, >subsp. nov. 

 Differs from A. t. fohkiensis Hartert in being of a brighter 

 and more yellowish-green above. The head is paler with 

 the coronal stripes less distinct, the dark stripes being 

 merely darkish olive-green. It resembles A. trocMloides 

 Blyth in its light green colouring, but differs from it in its 

 much smaller size and in the narrow edging of tbe inner 

 web of the outer rectrices. Wing : ^ 52-55 mm., ? 50*5- 

 51 mm. 



Type. In the Tring Museum. ^ , Kuatun, N.W. Fohkien, 

 11 April, 1897. 



I name tliis bird in honour of Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 who some years ago pointed out its distinctness to me. 



Mr. La Touche proposed the name of 



Sitta europsea nebulosa, nom. nov., 



for his recently described S. e. ohscura (cf. p. 31), the latter 

 name being preoccupied. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain made the following remarks 

 with regard to Col. R. Meinertzhagen's communication to 

 the B. 0. C. in November (p. 25) : — 



Until quite recently there have been two gaps in the series 

 available for comparison of European and American Grey 

 Phalaropes. Breeding birds fi'om the Hudson's Bay district 

 in July were very poorly represented, while May-killed 

 birds were altogether lacking. Both these gaps have now 

 been filled, and confirm Mr. Iredale's diagnosis. I am ex- 

 hibiting to-night a female from Devonshire, dated May 14th, 

 and recorded in ' British Birds, ^ ii. p. 204, side by side with 

 an American bird of similar date, and the difierences are so 

 striking, even by artificial light, that there can now be no 

 longer any doubt that the differences are not seasonal, as 

 maintained by Col.Meinertzhagen, biit geographical, as stated 

 by Mr. Iredale. It is curious that Col. Meinertzhagen had 

 evidence of this in his hands, but failed to see its significance. 

 In the 'Bulletin' (pp. 26-7) he admits that birds from 

 JE. Greenland are paler (or, as he describes it, "show con- 



