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primaries are not so pale, but distinctly darker^ and the sides 

 are of a deeper chestnut. Wings, 94-102 mm. 



Hab. Hills south of Brahmaputra, Cachar to Patkoi Hills 

 (series collected by E. C. Stuart Baker and H. N. Coltart). | 



Type : S ^^- Margherita, Upper Assam, 22. ii. 1902, col- 

 lected by Dr. H. N. Coltart. In the Tring Museum. 



Erythrocichla hicolor whiteheadi, subsp. nov. 



Similar to E. bicolor bicolor from Sumatra and the Malay 

 Peninsula, but the forehead much less rufescent, almost 

 uniform with the interscapulium. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Type : S ad. No. 389 Whitehead Coll., Benkoker, 11.x. 

 1885. In the Tring Museum. 



Macronus ptilosus reclusus, subsp. nov. 



Differs from M. p. ptilosus of the Malay Peninsula and 

 Sumatra in having the whole breast and abdomen fulvous- 

 brown, without a slaty-grey patch in the middle of the 

 breast and abdomen, and the crown of the head is of a 

 lighter rufous; the back and flanks of a slightly lighter 

 brown. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Type : S ad. Kipa Balu, 1000 feet. Collected by John 

 Whitehead, 17. i. 1888. In the Tring Museum. 



Obs. The name trichorrhus of Teniminck cannot be 

 accepted for this new form, because the grey middle of the 

 abdomen is clearly mentioned in the original description, 

 although the species was said to have come from " Borneo 

 and Sumatra.^' Salomon Miiller discovered it first on 

 Sumatra, but says that he later on also found it on Borneo. 

 As the type-locality for Temminck must be designated the 

 lowlands of Sumatra. 



Mr. P. F. Bun YARD exhibited a clutch of nine eggs with 

 down and feathers of the Ring-necked Duck {Nyroca collaris) 

 from Alberta, Canada, from the collection of Francis M. 

 Blackwood, taken on May Slst, 1902 j also a clutch of seven 



