BULLETIN 



or THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



BTo. VI. 



The fifth meeting of the Club was held at the E-estauraut 

 Frascati^ 32 Oxford Street^ on "Wednesday^ the 15th of 

 February, 1893. 



Chairman: P. L. Scl^lTer^ F.R.S. 



Members present : — E. Bidvtell, H. E. Dressek^ H. U. 

 Forbes, W. R. Ogilvie-Graxt, Col. L. Hoavard Ikbv. 

 Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., E. Neale, H. J. Pearson, 

 F. Penrose, Capt. Savile Reid, Howard Saunders {2\eas.). 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, Henry Seei^ohm, J. T. Tristram- 

 Valentine. 



Guests: C. Fletcher, Ernst Hartert, Charles Hose. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited on behalf of Mr. John 

 "Whitehead a specimen of a Cryptolopka from the island of 

 Palawan, which Dr. Sharpe had identified as Crypiolopha 

 mentis {cf. ' Ihk/ 1888, p. 199). Mr. Whitehead, however, 

 proposed to separate it from the Kina-Balu s])ecies, on 

 account of its yellow rump, and called it 



GrVptolopha xanthopygia, sp, n. 

 Similis C. montis, sed rostro crassiore et uropygio sulphui-eu 

 distinguenda. 

 Hab. i^ lontibus insulse Palawauensis. 

 [March 1st, 1893.] 



