Glaucjdium borneense. 



G. simile G. brocliei et G. sylvaiico, sed ab aiubobus fascia 

 cervicali alba distiiiguei)dura. Long. tot. 6"0 poll., 

 ciilni. 0'55, ake 3Go, caudie 1'9, tarsi O'S. 



A further communication from Dr. Sharpe described a 

 new species of Spiloruis fi'om Sarawakj with the following- 

 diagnosis : — 



• SpILOKXIS RAJA; sp. n. 



Sirailis S. sulaensi, sed fasciis albidis pectoralibus ct abdomi- 

 nalibuS; axillaribusque valde crebrioribus distinguendus. 

 Long. tot. 18-5 jjolL, ake 12'2; caudte J'i), tarsi 3"25. 



Mr. AV. R. Ogiltie Gkaxt gave an account of a successful 

 expedition Mliich he had made to Banffshire with Capt. Savile 

 Keid, to obtain tlie nests of the Snow-Banting [Plectro- 

 phtiiax mvaVis) and the Dotterel [Eudromias riiorinellus) . 

 The pioba])]e locality of the breeding-places of these two 

 species had been indicated to him by i\Ir. F. D. Godmau, 

 F. R.S.J with such foresight that Mr. Ogilvie Grant had 

 obtained the nests of both species on the first day of his 

 expedition. The nests of these two rare species of British 

 birds would be shortly exhibited in the series of naturally 

 mounted groups at the British Museum. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited a skin of the Grey Phalarope 

 {Phalaropus fulicarivs), apparently of a bird assuming 

 summer plumage, from Chili, transmitted to him by Dr. R. 

 A. Pliilippi, of Santiago, C.M.Z.S., and remarked that the 

 occasional visits of this Phalarope to Chili had been already 

 noted by Mr. Salvin (P. Z. S. 1883, p. 429). 



Mr. Saunders ('Manual,' p. 551) had stated that the Red- 

 necked Phalarope (P. hyperloreaf<) also occurred in Chili, 

 but ]\rr. Sciater had not been able to find any authority for 

 this, though AVilson's Phalarope of N. America (P. icUsom) 

 v.as an occasional visitor to Chili and Patagonia (see Scebohm, 

 ' Plove-rs/ p. 343, and Berkeley James's ' Xew List of Chilian 

 Birds,' p. 11). 



Mr. ScLATER also exhibited a skin of a rare Pigeon [Geo- 

 phaps plumifera) [cf. Gould, 'Birds of Australia,' v. pi. 69] 



