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^ . Wing 61 mm. ; tail 43 ; tarsus 17. 

 ?. „ 57 mm.; „ 40; „ 16. 

 Hab. Mt. Arizan, Formosa, 8000 ft. 



Types of the species : <^ ? . iii. 12. "Walter Goodfellow 

 coll. 



DiCiEUM FORMOSUM, Sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to D. luzoniense, 

 O. -Grant, but the scarlet on the chest does not extend on to 

 the breast, the sides of the breast and belly are pale brownish- 

 buff, the flanks paler olive, and the under tail-coverts pale 

 buff, instead of light cinammon-yellow. Wing 50 mm. 



Ilab. Mt. Arizan, Formosa, 7000 ft. 



Type of the species : ^ . iii.l3. Walter Goodfellow coll. 



Obs. The head of this specimen has unfortunately been 

 somewhat injured, but the cheeks are no doubt of a much 

 darker grey than in D. tuzoniense. 



Mr. F. D. GoDM AN .remarked that he had received by 

 post a small number of bird-skins collected by Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes during his recent visit to the Island of Formosa ; all 

 the species were, however, represented in Mr. Goodfellow's 

 collection, and the only new one, a Flower-pecker {Dicceum), 

 had just been described by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. 



He exhibited a peculiar cinnamon-coloured variety of the 

 female Blackbird [Turdus merula). 



Mr. P. F. Bun YARD exhibited clutches of eggs of the 

 following species : — 



Blackbird. {Turdus merula.) Two very remarkable 

 clutches of four eggs each, laid by the same bird and taken 

 in Kent in 1911 and 1912. The ground-colour was rich 

 greenish-blue, heavily capped with chestnut-red, and the 

 smaller ends of the eggs almost without pigment. The same 

 bird produced a similar variety in 1910. 



Grasshopper- Warbler. [Locustella naevia.) A clutch 

 of six from Germany, 20. vi. 11. Pure white, with the 



