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Br. ScLATER exhibited a second egg of the Kakaleur 

 {Irrisor capensis), and remarked that it did not differ 

 materially from the egg of the same species which he had 

 exhibited on a former occasion. (Cf. Bull. B.O.C., XVI., 

 no. cxxi., p. 48, 1906.) This egg, which had been kindly 

 sent to Dr. Sclater by Mr. Haagner, the Secretary of the 

 South African Ornithologists' Union, had been taken 

 by Mr. E. H. Ivy on the 1st of November, 1905, near 

 G-rahamstown. 



Mr. RusKiN BuTTERFiELD read a list of birds which had 

 been added to the British List since the publication of the 

 second edition of Mr. Howard Saunders' " Illustrated 

 Manual of British Birds." 



Dr. 0. FiNSCH, Hon. Memb. B.O.U., sent for exhibition 

 an example of a new species of Owl from Western Java, 

 which he proposed to name : 



Sybnium babtelsi, sp. n. 



Toes feathered as in S. seloputo (Horsf.) and in 8. 

 maingayi, Hume (from Malacca), but distinguished at 

 once from both these species by the uniform dark-brown 

 back and by having from 16 to 18 cross-bars on the tail- 

 feathers. Similar also to S. leptogrammicum (Temm.), 

 but that species is smaller (al. 300 mm.), has the back cross- 

 barred and the toes naked. Al. 360, caud. 200 mm. 



The single specimen, a fully adult female, had been 

 captured by Mr. Max Bartels at Pasir Datar, Preanger, 

 on Mount Pangerango (2600 ft.), W. Java, and belongs to 

 the collection " Bartels and ter Meulen, Amsterdam." 



Mr. WiTHERBT in exhibiting a specimen of Emberiza 

 poliopleura called attention to a number of filo-plumes 

 which projected conspicuously beyond the feathers on the 

 nape of the bird. Mr. Witherby had found that such 

 elongate lilo-plumes were present in both sexes of this 



