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Carine brama brama. 
All India N. of 14°, Assam and North Chin Hills. 
Carine brama fryi. 
Vide supra. 
Carine brama pulchra. 
A dark small bird, wing 131-144 mm., tail very definitely 
barred and also more regularly than in brama. 
Central and 8. Burma, Malay Peninsula, ? how far south, 
Siam, Yunnan, S. Shan States, Cambodia. 
With reference to Mr. Bunyard’s exhibition of eggs 
showing scratches and abrasions at the previous meeting, 
reported on pages 33-36, the Rev. F. C. R. Jourvain 
remarked that he was of ‘opinion that scratches on eggs 
could be accounted for in most cases by either the action of 
the beak in turning the eggs or by the claws when settling 
down to brood or on leaving the nest. 
Mr. Cuarues Cuuss described the following new forms of 
South American birds :— 
Serpophaga helene, sp. nov. 
Adult male. This species is allied to S. caudata (Salvin), 
but differs in being much darker on the top of the head, 
back, flight-quills, and tail-feathers, in being larger, in 
having the chin white, the breast dusky olive-green, the 
abdomen brighter yellow, the under surface of the flight- 
quills and tail-feathers darker, and the pale tips and white 
outer margin of the outermost feathers on each side of the 
tail more conspicuous. 
Total length 103 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 53, tail 
51, tarsus 18. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but slightly paler 
on the underparts. Wing 51 mm. 
Habitat. British Guiana. 
The types, which are in the McConnell Collection, were 
collected, the male at Bartica and the female on the Abary 
River. 
