hvpochondriis olivaceo-grisc-is : pJaga pectorali mediaua 

 scarlatina distinguenda. Long. lot, 4-0 poll., ales 1"9_. 

 caudcC 1"2, tarsi ()'55. 

 Hah. in pane meridionali insulfe Philippinensis ' Luzon ' 

 dictae. 



Mr, Hexry Seebohm called attention to the existence of 

 two races of the Ground-Tlirusli^ ^vhich had hitherto been 

 united under the name of Geocidda sibirica. The tvro forms 

 vrere easily distinguishable, and should be called Geocichla 

 sibirica (Pall.) and G. davisoni (Hume). 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited the skin of a Phasianus 

 torquutv.s from Samoa. 



Dr. Bo^vDLER Sharpe made some remarks on Canon Tris- 

 tram's paper " On the Use and Abuse of Generic Terms " 

 (' Ibis/ 1895, pp. 130-133) . A discussion followed, in which 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, Dr. St. George Mivart, Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, Mr. Henry Seebohm, and Mr. H. J. Pearson took 

 part. 



Mr. Howard Saunders proposed for the smaller Noddy 

 Terns the new generic term of 



MicRANOGs, gen. n. 



Genus simile generi ' Anous ' dicto. sed rostro longiore et 

 tenuiore, et rectrice tertia externa utrinque longissima 

 distinguendum. 



Typus est Micranous tenuirostris (Temm,). 



Islv. Sclater exhibited a pair of skins of Darwin's Tinamou 

 {Nothurn daricini) from P.atagonia {cf. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 213, 

 pi. XX.), recently received from Prof. Dr. Carlos Berg, Director 

 of the National INIuseum of Buenos Ayres, and pointed out 

 the discrepancy of the size of the sexes in this as in other 

 Tinamous, the male being considerably smaller than the 

 female. 



