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inimiyratious of the HwaWow {Hi rundo rustica), Nij^'htingale 

 {A'edon iusciaia). Yellow Wagtail {Motacilla campestris), 

 and Lesser Whitethroat {Sylvia curruca), as illustrating 

 the results which had been arrived at from the observations 

 made this year. It was hoped that these results might be 

 l)ublished in January, and the Committee proposed to ask 

 the Club for funds at the February meeting to continue 

 the work in the future, after members had had time to 

 examine the report and judge whether it seemed to justify 

 a continuance of the work. 



On behalf of Mr. H. Evel^'ii Rawson, Mr. Howard 

 Saunders exhibited two Pheasants, supposed bj'' the 

 former to be hybrid birds. On examination, however, one 

 proved to be a male (j)artial albino) of the common hybrid 

 Pheasant of England, while the other was an immature 

 male of the Golden Pheasant {Chrysolophus pictus) in its 

 first year's autumn plumage. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert described two new birds as follows: 



1. Amytornis woodwardi, sj). n. 



Differs from A. hotisei (Milligan) in having the throat 

 and foreneck white, instead of striped with black and 

 white ; the tail much longer ; and a miiform black malar 

 stripe. The sides of the neck and foreneck, as well as the 

 top of the head, hind neck and upper back, black, each 

 feather with a white shaft-line, which, however, is not a 

 mere straight line, but has short and fine lateral branches, 

 thus looking like a line of tiny arrow-heads. UpjDer back 

 also with some dark chestnut stripes, rump and upper tail- 

 coverts chestnut, with blackish-brown median stripes and 

 light l)rown shaft-lines. Abdomen of male cinnamon, 

 that of female chestnut. Under tail-coverts blackish with 

 buff shaft-lines and buft' or cinnamon edges. Remiges 

 brownish-black, with very narrow dark brown margins. 

 Upper wing-coverts black, with white shaft-lines. Rec- 

 trices brownish-black, with narrow rufous outer edges. 

 Bill (in skin) blackish horn-colour, legs horn-brown, iris 



