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Mr. J. D. La Touche forwarded the description o£ a new 

 species of Minivet, which he proposed to call : — 



Pericrocotus montpellieri, sp. nov. '~Y~ 



Adult male. Crown grey, back dark olive-green, rump 

 warm olive-yellow, upper tail-coverts orange-red, side- 

 rectrices and wing-bar orange-vermilion. The throat is 

 pale grey tinged in the centre with yellow. The rest of the 

 underparts and the under wing-coverts orange, redder on 

 the breast. Wing 94 mm., tail 109 mm. 



Adult female. Head and hind neck dark grey, the back 

 dark olive-green, rump and upper tail-coverts deep olive- 

 yellow, the throat greyish yellow, rest of underparts deep 

 greenish yellow. Wing 91 mm., tail 130 mm. 



Type in the British Museum, (J ad. Yangtze Big Bend,, . 

 9-10,000 ft. Chukung to Yangpi, W. Yunnan, March 30th, 

 1906, ex Colonel G. Rippon Coll., 12.17.97. 



$ ad. Loukouchai, S.B. Yunnan, 3rd March, 1921. 

 J. D. La Touche Coll. 



I name this handsome and very distinct Minivet in honour 

 of Baron Charley de Montpellier de Vedrines, of the Chines© 

 Maritime Customs, who procured me many interesting birds 

 during his stay at IMengtsz. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain sent the following correc- 

 tions : — 



In the report of the Eleventh Oological Dinner (Bull. 

 B. 0. C. xlii. p. 82) Mr. Bunyard states that the earliest 

 record of the discovery of the eggs of the Wood-Lark is that 

 in the ' Gotheca Wolleyana ' (presumably this remark applies 

 to England only, though it is not so stated). The Wood- Lark 

 was, of course, well known as a resident to White of Sel- 

 borne. Moreover, Neville Wood in ' British Soug-Birds ' 

 gives details of nests found by him in south Derbyshire. 

 This book was published in 1836, long before the cases 

 quoted by Mr. Bunyard. 



The earliest Suffolk record is not 1853 as stated, but 



