Vol. xliii.] 110 



This clutch toffetber with another taken in 1916 from 

 near the same place, and apparently from the same hird, 

 were exhibited by Mr. Reginald Ware (who took the first 

 clutch) at the Second Oological Dinner, September 13th 

 1916 ('Ibis,' Jan. 1917, p. 125). 



Description. Ground-colour reddish white, markings suf- 

 fused reddish brown, with fine hair-lines of a darker shade. 

 This is probably the first complete erythristic clutch ever 

 taken in the British Isles. A single egg from Freshwater, 

 Isle of Wight, is recorded in ' British Birds/ vol. xii. p. 250, 

 in the late Col. Stonham's collection ; there were three eggs 

 in bad condition. 



Gkasshoppee- Warbler {Locustella ncevia). A clutch of 

 six, exceptionally heavily zoned, from Surrey. A similar 

 egg to these is figured in the British Museum ' Catalogue of 

 Birds' Eggs, vol. iv. pi. viii. fig. 21. 



Wood-Warbler {Pliylloscopus sihilatrix). A clutch of 

 six from Surrey, one of which was pure white with a few 

 underlying spots of ash-grey at the large end. Four have 

 large widely separated blotches. The sixth egg has a large 

 superimposed blotch measuring 90 mm. ; the remainder of 

 the egg was practically unmarked. 



Dr. Percy R. Lowe described an apparently new sub- 

 species of Bird of Paradise, as follows : — 



Paradisea apoda luptoni, subsp. nov. 



The type-specimen of this apparently new subspecies or 

 hybrid was taken from a box of sixty or more similar skins 

 seized by H.M. Customs at Newhaven on February 25th 

 of the present year. The name is based solely on coloration 

 and is bestowed in order to call attention to what may be an 

 interesting instance of hybridism, the colour of the pectoral 

 plumes being " clocked-egg " colour, that is to say, exactly 

 intermediate between P. a. rag<jiana and P. a. noviv- 

 guinece. 



