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broad bands of rich brown at the large ends. These were 
shown with a typical clutch for comparison. 
Two clutches of four eggs of the Lapwing from Here- 
fordshire, one exceptionally heavily and richly blotched, 
resembling in appearance and richness eggs of the Dotterel. 
The second clutch had well-defined minute specks, a great 
contrast to the first clutch. 
Dr. E. Hartert exhibited a specimen of Serinus bu- 
chanani and made the following remarks :—At the January 
Meeting I described, from a pair collected by Captain A. 
Buchanan near Maktau (not Maktan, as printed in the 
Bulletin), not far from Voi in British East Africa, a new 
species of Serinus which I named S. buchanani. Yesterday I 
received two skins collected at Voi by Dr. van Someren, 
who asked me to let him know by return what they were, as 
they seemed to belong to a new species. He had collected 
ten examples, all alike, with no appreciable differences 
between the sexes. 
Mr. G. C. Lampert exhibited an immature male Hedge- 
Sparrow shot at Esher, Surrey (9/6/18), which had the 
wings and tail pure white, the remainder of the plumage 
being whitish, showing the normal markings very faintly. 
The eyes were normal, bill paler than normal, and the legs 
and feet horn-colour. 
Mr. Cuartes Cuuss sent descriptions of a new genus 
and five new subspecies of South American birds :— 
SrIcTOMYRMORNISs, gen, nov. 
The species that I propose to separate from Hypocnemis 
under the above title form quite a different group, and are 
distinguished by the flat and Muscicapine bill, the width of 
which at the baseis about three-fifths the length of the exposed 
culmen. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth 
primaries longest and equal; the third is shorter than the 
sixth, but longer than the seventh. Tail nearly square, the 
