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Tchitrea paradisi borneensis, subsp. no v. 

 Type : cJ ad. Bejalong, Sarawak. June 1903. In the 

 Tring Museum. 



T. p. a-ffinis has been admitted to tbe list of Philippine 

 birds by Mr. E. C. McGregor on the strength o£ a specimen 

 in the Frankfurt Museum received from Cuming and said 

 to have come from Luzon. As the species has never again 

 been found in the Philippine Archipelago, we cannot for a 

 moment believe that the locality is correct. 



T. p. nicobarica (Dates) is another distinct form, but 

 Gates should not have said that the white male was indis- 

 tinguishable from that of T. p. afinis, as the bill is larger 

 and. the head much darker, being purplish black-blue, even 

 more so than that of 2\ p. borneensis, which it resembles 

 more than that of T. p. afinis. 



T. paradisi ceylonensis Zarudny & Harms from Ceylon is a 

 very distinct form, and it is curious that it never received 

 a name before. 



I am not acquainted with T. procera Richmond from 

 Simalur Island, west of Sumatra, which seems to be another 

 form of T. paradisi. 



Mr. H. F. WiTHERBY exhibited the primary-feathers of 

 some Larks, both adult and juA^enile, and made the following 

 observations : — 



When working out the moult and sequences of plumage 

 of the species of Larks on the British list, I found that in 

 most, if not all, the first (or bastard) primary in the juvenile 

 was considerably longer and broader than in the adult, and 

 its tip was more rounded and not so pointed. I exhibit two 

 first primaries — the one taken from a juvenile and the other 

 from an adult Sky-Lark (Alauda a. arvensis). It will be 

 seen that the difference in size and shape is very marked. 

 That of the juvenile measures 20 mm. in. length, while that 

 of the adult only measures 13 mm., and is also much 

 narrower and more pointed. I have found a similar differ- 

 ence in varying degree in the following species : — Melano- 



