35 [Yol. xvi. 



" The breeding rang-e of this bird is Western and Central 

 Europe; on migration it ^Dasses through South Europe, 

 and winters in Palestine and North Africa, a few examples 

 reaching Persia." 



2. Orphean Warbler {Sylvia orphea). 



"An immature male was picked up dead under the tele- 

 graph wires near St, Leonards on September 16th, 1905, 

 and brought in to Mr. Bristow, the taxidermist. It was a 

 fresh, clean-looking bird and had a bare spot under the 

 chin, where it had struck the wires. It was seen by Dr. 

 N. E. Ticehurst two days later." 



"The previously obtained examples mentioned in Mr. 

 Saunders' ' Manual ' are : — 



(1) An adult female showing signs of incubation, 



obtained near Wetherby, Yorks, on July 6th, 

 1848, on questionable authority. 



(2) A young bird, hardly able to fly, obtained near 



Hanley, Middlesex, in June, 1866, as recorded by 

 Mr. J. E. Harting. 



" Besides these two examples, a female was shot near St. 

 Leonards (close to where the present bird was obtained) 

 on October 7th, 1903, and exhibited by Mr. W. E. Butter- 

 field [cf. Bull. B.O.C., XIY., no. c, p. 16(1903) ]." 



Mr. H. P. WiTHERBY exhibited the following birds 

 (collected by Capt. A. E. Hamerton in Somaliland), which 

 he had lately described in the " Ibis," viz. : — 



AlcBmon hamertoni from Obbia, Alceynon hamertoni altera 

 from ]^orth-east Somaliland, and also a male specimen of 

 Pyrrhulauda inelanauchen, which differed considerably 

 from typical specimens of this species by its paler 

 coloration, and by the absence of a white frontal spot. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe sent for exhibition an example 



