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WaIv'di.aw-Ra^msav. S, J. WiriTK, C Wnv:Mi'i:i;. Tj. A. 

 AViM.iAMs. 11. F. W'rniKKiiV (Sfcrridnj timl Treasurer). 



Visitors : — J. M. Bakton, S. Bookman, E. Batters, Hon. 

 J. M. CAMPTiET.L, E. J. Earle, C. E. Eagan, H. Gronvold, 

 J. E. Hailstone, A. Jones, R. B. Lodge, E. K. Lorn, 

 L. C. LoYD, G. A. Macmillan, D. H. Meares, W. M. 

 Meredith, J. B. Sargent, E. Scholepield, J. B. Scott, 

 M. C. Seton, C. G. Talbot-Ponsonby, S. Whiting. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant described a new Tree- 

 Partridge from the Chin Hills, which he proposed to 

 call :— 



Arboricola batemani, subsp. n. 



(^ adult. Closely allied to A. torqueola, from which 

 it is distinguished by having the entire sides of the neo\ 

 chestnut, spotted with black, Tn A. torqueola a short 

 band of chestnut and black feathers commences behind 

 the ear-coverts, and terminates half way down the neck, 

 the remainder of the neck being black and white, like the 

 throat. Wing 5*9, tarsus 1'7. 



The type-specimen was obtained hy Mr. A. C. Bateman 

 at Tiddim, near Fort White, Chin Hills, on the :b-d of 

 December, 1905, and was forwarded to Mr. E. W. Gates, 

 l)y whom it was presented to the British Museum. The 

 present form takes the place of .1. torqueola to the south 

 of Manipur, and has been procured at Falam by Mr. P. F. 

 Wickham, while a number of examples have been forwarded 

 l)y Colonel G. Rippon from Mt. Victoria. 



A communication from Dr. V. Bianchi contained 

 diagnoses of tiv^" new subspecies of birds from south-caslcrn 

 Tibet. 



I. CoLOiUS DAUniCUS KIIAMENSIS, Subsp. U. 



Cald'iis ('. (lavrico p(n"similis, sed major, long, alte 2l'8-2ol 

 mm. contra maxiiniun 242 mm. in C. dnnrieo ; auchenio 

 et gastraeo magis cinerascentibus. (Typ. in Mus. 



