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(Bull. B. 0. C. xliii. p. 47), many interesting migrants had 

 recently been observed on this farm. Lord llothschild 

 therefore suggested that a letter, signed by himself as the 

 President elect of the Union and by Mr. W. L. Sclater 

 as Chairman of the Club, should be addressed to the Mayor 

 of Reading praying that he and the Corporation might see 

 their way to take such steps as would prevent, in future, 

 the shooting of birds of any kind, birds'-nesting, or any 

 avoidable disturbance of the birds within the limits of their 

 Sewage Farm. 



These suggestions were unanimously endorsed by the 

 members of the Club present. 



We have received a communication from Mr. C. Boden 

 Kloss calling attention to some discrepancies in the account 

 given of the measurements of Enicurus maculatus rohinsoni 

 (Bull. B. 0. C. xliii. p. 19). This subspecies is there said to 

 differ from E. m. guttatus in being very much smaller ; but 

 the series of comparative measurements given show that it 

 is larger. Again, the subspecies is said to have wings of 

 103-115 mm., but Robinson and Kloss recorded the wing- 

 measurements of the original series (of which the type-series 

 is only a part) as 100 mm. ('Ibis,' 1919, p. 595). Two 

 errors in spelling are also pointed out, viz. : Langham for 

 Langbian, and lacatus for bacatus. 



Mr. Boden Kloss also makes the suggestion that, in order 

 to avoid errors in future, new forms when communicated by 

 one member on behalf of another should have the describor's 

 name attached, thus : 



Saxicola caprata burmanica Baker, subsp. nov. 



This would prevent mistakes such as appear in Zool. 

 Records, 1916, where C. sumatrana of Ogilvie-Grant appears 

 as of Robinson and Kloss (No. 692) ; and in Zool. Records, 

 1920, where Anuropsis malaccensis saLaratlor of Robinson and 

 Kloss appears as of Baker (No. 34). 



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