61 [Vol, XXXV. 



" Above it is darker than L. c. nepalensis and has a strong 

 wash of rufous from the head to the neck, this colour being 

 most conspicuous on the nape. The ear-coverts are rufous 

 instead of grey, and the whole of the underparts are rufous, 

 merely washed with grey on the breast and middle of the 

 abdomen, with the usual white markings on the chin and 

 throat. 



" It is also a smaller bird than L. c. nepalensis, the wings 

 of the three specimens exhibited varying between 85 and 

 92 mm,, as against 92 and 102 mm, in the true L. c. nepalensis. 



" The three birds were all captured on their nests, con- 

 taining 3, 3, and 2 eggs respectively, hard set, on the 27th 

 of June and 4th of July, 1910. 



" It appears to be a local resident form of Accentor, 

 inhabiting the higher ranges of Garhwal, where there is a 

 comparatively heavy rainfall. It was found breeding at 

 an elevation of about ] 5,000 feet. 



" I name the bird after the collector — Mr. S. L. Whym- 

 per : — 



" Laiscopus collaris whymperi, subsp. n. 



"The type, an adult female (specimen no. 000, Garhwal, 

 4. vii. 10), is in the collection of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society." 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to a Discussion 

 on 



'' Coloration as a Factor in Family and 

 Generic Differentiation,"^ 



Dr. Percy R. Lowe *, who had been nominated by ' the 

 Committee to open the Discussion, said he was not there to 

 try to upset the established characters and methods employed 

 in generic classification, or to substitute for these some 

 brand-new scheme based on colour-characters. All he 

 wished to emphasise was this, that colour-pattern seemed to 



* [Dr. Lowe's remarks, of wliicli a condensed account is here given, 

 will appear in full in ' The Ibis ' for April 1915.— Ed.] 



