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and rump ash-grey, with dark brown central stripes. 

 Scapularies dark brown, centres with fawn edges. Primaries 

 light brown, with narrow edging of fawn. Tail dark brown, 

 with blackish shafts. Length 6^ inches ; tail 4 to 4| inches. 

 Bill purple-brown. Irides reddish. Feet and legs yellow. 

 Both sexes have five large rectal bristles. 



Type : Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia. In the 

 Austral Avian Museum, Fairoak, Hants. 



The female is smaller, but the tail is the same length. 

 Lores, chin, throat, breast, and flanks bright fawn. Crown 

 of head, nape, and whole of mantle and back yellowish grey, 

 with dark brown central stripes. Abdomen yellowish white. 

 Scapularies, primaries, and tail as in the male. The soft 

 parts also as in the male. 



The next Meeting of the Cluh will be held on Wednes- 

 day, the 8th of November, 1916, at PAGANI'S RESTAURANT, 

 42-48 Great Portland Street, W. ; the Dinner at 6.45 p.m. 

 Members of the Club intending to dine are requested to 

 inform the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Talbot- Ponsonby, at 5 Crown 

 Office Row, Temple, E.G. 



[N.B. — Members who intend to make any communication 

 at the next Meeting of the Club are requested to 

 give notice beforehand to the Editor at 34 Elsworthy 

 Boad, South Hampstead, N.W., and to place in his 

 hands not later than at the meeting MSS. for publica- 

 tion in the Bulletin.] 



(Signed) 

 Rothschild, D. Seth-Smith, C. Gr. Talbot-Ponsonby, 



Chairman. Editor. Sec. ^' Treas. 



