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and that their numbers had been increased by second flights, 
some of which were probably home-bred birds from the 
North of Scotland. It was desirable to know whether in 
Wales, Ireland, and the South of England, the number of 
Woodcock had been normal or not, and he hoped that any 
members of the Club who could give eo on this 
subject would do so. 
Mr. Cuartes Cuuss sent the following descriptions of 
new forms of South and Central American birds :-— 
Pachyrhamphus macconnelli, sp. nov. 
Adult male. Allied to P. niger Spix, but differs in having 
more white on the upper wing-coverts, in having white 
margins to the inner webs of the flight-quills, and in being 
slate-black, instead of jet-black, on the under surface, the 
axillaries and under wing-coverts speckled with white 
instead of being uniform black. 
Total length 145 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 73, 
tail 54, tarsus 18. 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being ochreous 
brown on the head, back, lesser upper wing-coverts, scapulars, 
and upper tail-coverts ; the outer margins of the median 
and greater upper wing-coverts, outer edges of flight-quills, 
and tips of tail-feathers buff ; under surface yellowish olive. 
Wing 70 mm. 
Habitat. British Guiana, Surinam, Cayenne, and Trinidad. 
The type is in the McConnell collection, and was collected 
on the Bonasika River in 1911, and the female desoribed, 
also in the McConnell collection, was collected in the Upper 
Takutu Mountains in 1909. 
Pachyrhamphus albiloris, sp. nov. 
Adult male. Similar to P. cinereiventris Scl., trom Santa 
Marta, but differs from the type of that species in having 
white lores, and in being paler slate-grey on the under 
surface. 
