IV 



pluniis nigro apicatis, sed macula mediana nigra nulla 

 distingueudus. 



Hub. adhuc ignota. 



With regard to the distribution of the South-American 

 species of Picumnus, Mr. Hargitt remarked that there were 

 none peculiar to the Patagonian Sub-region; 10 to the 

 Sub-Andean Sub-region; 2 common to the Sub-Andean 

 and Central American Sub-regions; 11 peculiar to the 

 Amazonian Sub-region; 7 to the Brazilian Sub-region; 

 and 1 common to the Amazonian and Brazilian Sub- 

 regions. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe stated that during a recent exa- 

 mination of the specimens of Ardeirallus flavicoUis in the 

 collection of the British Museum.^ he had discovered that the 

 birds recorded from Bourou and Ceram belonged to a totally 

 different species, closely allied to Ardeirallus woodfordi, of 

 Ogilvie Grant, from Guadalcanar ; and as the species ap- 

 peared to be without a name, Dr. Sharpe proposed to call 

 the Ceram bird 



Ardeirallus PRiEXERMissus, sp. n. 



Similis A. ivoodfordl^ sed sordidior, brunnescentior, et collo 

 postico brunnescente nee castaneo, et subcaudalibus 

 cineraceis uec arenariis distiuguenda. Long. tot. 19 

 poll., ala 8'2, tarso 2"6, digito medio cum \mgue 2'-i. 



Hub. in insulis Moluccanis, " Ceram " et " Bourou '"'' dictis. 



Dr. Sharpe also read a list of the birds obtained by 

 Surgeon-Captain Peuton at Suakin in the Bed Sea. About 

 40 miles to the south-west of the town Captain Peuton had 

 visited the forest district of Erkowit and had obtained spe- 

 cimens of Fruncolinus erkelii, thereby adding considerably 

 to our knowledge of its northern range. Some of the 

 migratory birds were of considerable interest, as indicating 

 the route by which certain species proceeded towards South 

 Africa. The collection included examples of the following- 

 species : — Argrja acacicB, Corvn.s scajmlaris, Cucidus canorv.s 

 (juv.), Corcystes rjlandarhi^, Corridas garrula (juv.), QLyia 



