"brovrn colour — instead of grey — ttouIc] at once separate it. 

 Dr. Sliarpe added that Count Salvador! agreed with him 

 that the species "was new to science, and wished to apologize 

 to ^Ir. Biittikofer for not having shown him the specimen 

 during his recent visit to London, as, though it had been 

 specially put aside for his examination, it had got mislaid. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe also exhibited the types of the 

 species of Hainan birds described by Mr. Styau at the first 

 ]\Ieeting of the Club on October 19th, 1892, which had been 

 forwarded by him for examination. INIr. Styan had already 

 discovered that Iv&CryptoIojjha bicolo7'v:a.s not s^Cryptoloplta, 

 but was Herpornis Ujrannulvs of Swinhoe. Of the other 

 species Dr. Sharpe found t\ia.tPinarocicMa sckmackeri. Styan, 

 was Criniger pallidus of Swinhoe (^ Ibis,' 1870, p. 252; cf. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. vi. p. 81). The CrypsirMna nigra was a 

 Temnurus, a form which had remained unique in the Paris 

 Museum since 1825. The original species, Temnurus trun- 

 catus, was said to have come from Cochin China, but had 

 never been met with since. It was, however^ extremely pro- 

 bable that the genus Temnurus would be found both in Cochin 

 China and Hainan, for Mr. Schmacker's collection conclu- 

 sively proved (if, indeed, any further proof were necessary 

 after Swinhoe's researches) that Hainan formed an'^integral 

 part of the Indo-Chinese Region ; such species as Harpades 

 erythrocephalus, lanthoenas puniceus, and Siphia pallidipes, 

 which were true Himalayan forms, proclaiming Hainan to 

 be connected with the Himalayan subregion. Whether 

 Temnurus niger ^^ ould prove to be conspecific with Temnurus 

 truncatus could only be determined by a comparison of it 

 with the types in Paris. 



Dr. Sharpe next made some remarks on a remarkable 

 paper recently published by Dr. Hartlaub, entitled " Vier 

 seltene Ptallen ■" (Abhandl. nat. A'er. Bremen, xii. Heft 3, 

 pp. 389-402) . In this paper Dr. Hartlaub had discussed Rallus 

 monasa of Kittlitz from Kuschai, and proposed the generic 



