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post-boat, and Khartoum and civilization were reached 

 on the 13th after nine days' passage. Very few birds 

 were seen on this part of the route until after the mouth 

 of the Sobat had been passed, when they became 

 exceedingly numerous. Enormous numbers of Crowned 

 Cranes {Balearica 'pavonina) , Open-bills [Anastomus lamel- 

 ligerus) and Woolly-headed Storks {Dissoura microscelis) 

 were seen. Saddle-bills {EpMjppiorhynchus senegalensis) 

 were observed along- the banks, and even close to the 

 villages, while the sandbanks were covered with flocks of 

 Skimmers {Rhynchops fiavirostris) , Tree-Ducks {Dendrocycna 

 viduata), Comb-Ducks [Sarcidiornis melanonota) , Nile Greese 

 (Ghenalopex cegyptiacus) , and many other water-birds, as 

 already described by Mr. Buxton, Mr. Butler, and other 

 travellers. 



The whole transit from Entebbe to Khartoum occupied 

 forty-five days, of which ten were passed in waiting for the 

 steamer at Grondokoro. 



Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo gave a short account of 

 the work being done by the "Watchers' Fund" Committee 

 of the Eoyal Society for the Protection of Birds. He 

 stated that the "Watchers' Fund " was kept quite separate 

 from the rest of the frnids of the Society, and an appeal 

 for further financial assistance was most liberally responded 

 to by the members present. 



Mr. Ptcraft recommended that particular efforts 

 should be made to protect the nesting-places of the Eed- 

 necked Phalarope in Ireland, which he understood had 

 been harried to an alarming extent in the summer of 

 1905. 



Mr. C. E. Hellmatr, exhibited and described a new 

 Formicarian bird from the Lower Amazons as follows : — 



Hypocnemis myotherina oohrol^ma, subsp. n. 

 (J ad. Nearest to H. m. melanolmma, ScL, of Eastern 

 Peru and Bolivia, but the breast and abdomen are still paler. 



