Ill 



Birds would be prepared eit'.ier hv tlie B. O. U. or tlie 

 B.O. C. 



Mr. Philip Ckowley exhibited a curious bui!'-coloured 

 variety of the Whinchat {Pruiincohi rubetra) obtained near 

 Cromer during the late autumn. 



]Mr. T. DiGBY Pjgott showed a fine series of Guillemots' 

 eggS; procured from the Bempton Cliifs. 



A letter was read from Mr. W . R. Ogilvie Gk.\xt, with 

 reference to a communication from ^l\\ J. A. Harvie-BroAvu 

 which liad appeared in the last number of the ''Ibis/ re- 

 specting the discovery of the Snow-Bunting's nest iu Banff- 

 shire. ]\Ir. Grant reminded the meeting that he had verbally 

 described the share in the discovery taken by Messrs. L. 

 Hiuxman, Eagle Clarke, and others, and stated that a letter 

 would be sent to the 'Ibis-' on the subject. The Editor 

 of the ' Bulletin ' added that the omission of the names above 

 mentioned was purely accidental. 



]\Ir. F. J. Jackson exhibited a specimen of a curious Bush- 

 Shrike which he had found on his last expedition into 

 Eastern Africa — a young male, procured by him in the 

 Mauungu Wilderness in December 1891 ; and on the return 

 journey in April 1892 he obtained an adult male between 

 Tsavo and Kufumika. The species was a dwarf form of 

 Dryoscopus yambensis, but was so much smaller that there 

 could be no difficulty in its recognition. 'My. Jackson 

 proposed to call it 



Dryoscopus pringlii, sp. n. 



Similis D. r/ambensi, sed valde minor ; ala vix j2 75 poH. 

 (uec 3v ut in D. gambensi). 



Mr. E. Hakgitt described a new species of Picumnus 

 recently received by the British ^^luseum as 



PiCUMXUS SALVIXI, Sp. U. 



Similis P. undulato ex Guiana, sed gastrasi plumis medialiter 

 nigro-guttatis, raargiue fusco praecinctis : gutturis 



