Vol. xxxvii.] 33 



Apparently also sliglitly smaller : wings 55 (?) to 58 ( (^) 

 mm., while in .S^. terrestris striatrp edits I measure 56-62 ram. 



Hab. Silla de Caracas and Cumhre de Valencia in Northern 

 Venezuela (2 (^, 3 ? ). 



Type: S ^^- Silla de Caracas, near Caracas, 19. i. 1914. 

 No. 2090. S. M. Klages coll. (in the Tring Museum). 



Vireo josephse mirandae, suhsp. nov. 



Distinguished at first glance from V. josejiha joseph(B 

 (18 specimens compared, two of Avhicli from the Cumbre de 

 Valencia — cf. Ilellmayr, Archiv f. Naturg. vol. Ixxviii. 

 1912, p. 49) by its paler back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 and especially the paler, more sulphur-yellow breast, abdo- 

 men, and under tail-coverts. Wings 645-68 mm. 



Hah. Cerro del Avila. north of Caracas, 2000 m. {2 S -, 



3 ?). 



Type: ^ ad. Galiparo, Cerro del Avila, 15.xii.l913. 

 No. 1178. S. M. Klages coll. (in the Tring Museum). 



These two birds are named in memory of the two national 

 Venezuelan heroes, Simon Bolivar and Miranda. 



Mr. W. L. ScLATER exhibited a very remarkable variety of 

 a Parrot, apparently Pceocephalus meyeri, which had been 

 collected by Lieutenant Angus Buchanan at Longidd, 

 German East Africa. It was almost entirely of a canary, 

 yellow, washed with rosy pink, exhibiting a few normal 

 dusky grey feathers on the head and back. The collector 

 had shown it to the late Captain F. C. Selous, who was 

 much interested in it. 



llegarding the subject of abnormal clutches of eggs dis- 

 cussed at the last meeting, the Chairman read the follow- 

 ing extract from a letter from Sir T. Digby Piggott : — 



"I read with much interest the remarks of Mr. Stuart 

 Baker on the abnormally laige clutches of Sandpipers^ eggs 

 he exhibited. In confirmation.of his conclusions that great 

 abundance of food is the cause of increase in number of 



