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Dr. Ernst Hartert invited the Committee, who had 

 recently drawn up the 2nd Edition of the ' B. O. U. List of 

 British Birds/ to discuss with him at some future meeting 

 of the Club their reasons for considering as distinct species 

 Haxicola stapazina Linn, and Saxicola aur'ita Temm. He 

 expressed his opinion that the decision at which the 

 Committee had arrived was erroneous. 



Dr. Hartert said that he considered (Enanthe stapazina 

 and (Enanthe aurita to be one and the same species, which 

 should be known as QHnanthe h. hispanica — a name given by 

 Linnseus * to both a black-throated and a white-throated 

 bird, in the belief that they were male and female of the 

 same species. 



Dr. Hartert believed so-called 0. stapazina and 0. aurita 

 to be dimorphic for the following reasons ; — 



(1) They had the same area of distribution in the 



breeding-season. 



(2) They migrated together. 



(3) The females of each supposed race were indis- 



tinguishable. 



(4) The song, call-note, nest, and eggs were similar. 



(5) They had the same subspecies in the East, which 



should be known as GEnanthe hispanica wantho- 

 melcena Hempr. & Ehr, 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibition 

 of lantern-slides, at which many exceptionally beautiful 

 pictures were shown, 



Miss E. L, Turner, H.L.M.B.O.U., exhibited slides of the 

 following species of birds : — 



Cormorant {PhalacrQcorax carho). A series showing the 

 birds nesting in an old Heron's nest in Norfolk, taken in 

 July 1914. Cormorants have not bred on the east coast, 

 south of Flamborough Head, since 1827 (iy26?e ' British Birds,' 

 vol. viii. 1914, p. 133). 



Hooded Crow (Corvus cormx), 



Nightingale {Luscinia megarhyncha) . 



* Linnseus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. 1, p. 186, 1768— "Hispania." 



