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mantle and interscapular region to tlie middle of the back. 

 Anteriorly the dark blotches gradually merge into the uui- 

 form black of the crown and forehead. In some specimens 

 the black of the crown extends well backwards over the 

 occiput. Rest of the head and entire underparts uniform 

 black. No white edgings to the feathers of the abdomen 

 or vent^ or_, at any rate, not in adult birds. Sides and 

 flanks black faintly tinged with olive. Under wiug-coverts 

 blacky and the under tail-coverts black margined with dusky. 

 Legs darker than in the other species of this genus. 



Adult female. Beneath of a decidedly more ashy tint 

 than in specimens of E. bicolor, and above ashy-brown, as 

 compared with olive-green in E. bicolor. 



Dr. Lowe had much pleasure in naming this bird after 

 Sir Frederic Johnstone, Bart. 



Hab. Blanquilla I., Venezuela. 



Major H. A. F. Mag rath exhibited a female example of 

 the Chaffinch [Fringilla coslebs) procured at Kohat, North- 

 west Frontier Province of India, and a male of the Common 

 Linnet [Linota cannabina) from the Salt Range, Punjab, 

 both obtained by Mr. C. H. T. Whitehead, M.B.O.U., Indian 

 Army. 



On behalf of Capt. Arthur Dorrien-Smith, Mr. A. F. 

 Griffith exhibited an example of the Greater Yellow- 

 shanks (Totanus melanoleucus), which had been shot by the 

 former at Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, on September 16th, 

 1906. Mr. Griffith read a letter from Capt. Dorrien-Smith, 

 fully describing how he had seen and shot the bird. This 

 is believed to be the first time that this species has been 

 recorded from the British Isles or from any part of Europe. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited the types of 

 the recently described Birds of Paradise, Astrapia roth- 

 scMldi, Foerster, and Parotia wahnesi, Rothsch.*, from the 



* These two species have been described in a separate pamphlet, '' Two 

 new Birds of Paradise, by Professor F. Foerster and the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, Ph.D.," issued October 1st, 1906, at the Zoological Museum, 

 Tring. Pp. 1-3. 



