Mr. Ogilvie-Graxt then exhibited the skulls of two 

 Wood-Partridges, Arloricola javanica and Troplcoptrdix 

 charltGm, poiutiug out the extremely peculiar supra-orbital 

 chaiu of bones characteristic of the former species and oiher 

 members of the genus^ but eijfirely absent in the latter^ as 

 well as in the allied form T. chloropus. I\Ir. W. T. Blanford 

 had called his attention to a Z\1S. note of a specimen of T. 

 chloropiis in the British !Museum^ from vs-hich it vras clear 

 that this latter peculiarity had long ago been observed by 

 Mr. J. AA'cod-^MasoUj vrho first pointed out the supra-orbital 

 chain of bones in Arhoricola ; but the statement respecting 

 the absence of thisch-iiuof bones iu Trojjicoperdix uas never 

 published^ and vi'as quite lost sight of. 



T'uder these circumstances it "svas thought necessary to 

 separate T. diarltoni and T. chlorojms from the genus Arbori- 

 cola (in Tvhich they liad generally been included), and. to place 

 them in the genus Trojjicoperdix, already proposed by Blyth ; 

 the diiierences in the skull being supplemented by certain 

 external characters^ such as the different style of plumage 

 and the jDcculiar snow-white dowuy patches situated on each 

 side of the body under the wing. 



Dr. BovTDLER Sharpe remarked that in the ' Sarawak 

 Gazette^ of last January, Mr. E. Bartlett, the Curator of the 

 jMuscum at Sarawak^ had recorded the occurrence, for the 

 first time iu Borneo, of the Shoveler Duck {Spatula clypeaia) 

 and of the SaDd-]\Iartin [Cot He riparia). Dr. Sharpe stated 

 that he should have expected the latter bird to have been the 

 Chinese species. Cot He sinensis. 



Mr. W. E. De WintojN exhibited some interesting speci- 

 mens of Willovr-Grouse and Ptarmigan, selected from a large 

 collection of these birds sent from St, Petersburg. 



Mr. T. Parkix exhibited a skin of a very rare species of 

 Petrel, identified by Mr. Osbert Salviu as (Esirelaia incerta 

 of Schlegel. Mr. Parkin shot the bird during a calm, on 



