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model, are taken. The reason for this is that this picture 
is on a larger scale and is contained in a volume of paintings 
illustrating many rare and exotic birds then living in Dutch 
Aviaries and Menageries, and Professor, Oudemans states 
that the other pictures of still-existing birds are very 
accurate. The picture and the model represent the female 
of the White Dodo, the male having black and orange bars 
on the front of the bill and the head and neck red-brown 
fading into yellowish or buff in the rest of the upper surface, 
and passing abruptly into cream-colour below *. 
Lord RoruscHip also exhibited five photographs of a male 
Crossoptilon mantchuricum, taken to illustrate the thick-set 
turkey-like shape and attitudes of the bird, which is very 
unlike a true pheasant and equally unlike either Lopho- 
phorus or Tragopan. « 
Mr. W. L. Scuater exhibited a new form of Buzzard 
from Somaliland, which he described as follows :— 
Buteo jakal archeri, subsp. nov. 
Resembling Buteo jakal augur, but the white on the 
scapulars and back replaced by reddish; below from the lower 
breast posteriorly to. the under tail-coverts, including the 
thighs, rich rufous instead of white; a few splashes of the 
’ same rufous on the under wing-coverts ; chin, throat, and 
upper breast white, with a few spots of black and a slight 
trace of rusty stain on some of the feathers. ‘Iris dark 
brown, bill dark slate, cere and legs orange, claws blue- 
slate?’ (Bury). : 
Measurements. Wing 400 mm.; tail 195; tarsus 85; 
bill, without cere, measured with callipers, 28. 
Type, a male from Waghar, Somaliland, .collected by 
Mr. G. W. Bury, 6 Oct., 1905. B.M. reg. no. 1908/12/12a/5. 
There is another example in the Museum marked “30 miles 
* The model was constructed under Lord Rothschild’s personal 
supervision by Messrs. Roland Ward Ltd, 
