123 [Vol. xlii. 



Type in the British Museum. ? ,Raipur, (J. P., 19. ii. 1871, 

 ex Hume coll., 86.2.1. 369. 



Obs. A series of the above two races, placed side by side, 

 are distinguishable at a glance by their general colour- 

 tones. As in all Scops Owls there is variation in details 

 of coloration. 



It is unfortunate that 0. indica Gm. (Ceylon), 0. lettoides 

 Blyth (Coromandel), 0. malaharicus Hume (Coonoor and 

 W. Ghats), O. griseus Jerdon (E. Ghats), and 0. jerdoni 

 Walden (W. Ghats) are all synonyms of O. bakkamoena ! 



Lord Rothschild exhibited another fossil egg of the 

 Chinese Struthiolithus, and remarked that it had been pro- 

 cured by a Mr. Bahr in the same district where most of the 

 Struthiolithus eggs had been obtained, viz., in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Wuan, in the Province of Honan. The 

 specimen exhibited is one of the examples mentioned as 

 recorded on the previous occasion. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman discussed the forms of the Long- 

 billed Crested Larks inhabiting Southern Tunisia, and 

 proposed to name the race inhabiting the plains in the 

 extreme south-east of the Regency. 



He said :— " In 'The Ibis,' 1921, p. 397, I remarked that 

 Dr. Hartert had united Galerida cristata reichenowi Erl. 

 (described from Tozer on the N.W. margin of the Chott 

 El Djerid) and G. c. gafsce Kleinschm. & Hilgert (de- 

 scribed from Seggi near Gafsa) with G. c. arenicola, the 

 Algerian form which ranges from El Kantara to Toug- 

 gourt eastwards. I noted that from the small material 

 examined I could neither refute nor substantiate this state- 

 ment. If, however, either of these Tunisian forms are kept 

 up, G. c. reichenowi has six years' priority. The type-locali- 

 ties of G. c. reichenowi and G. c. gafsce are within 50 miles 

 of each other, both on the northern side of the Chott El 

 Djerid, situated in country the physical conditions of which 



