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Mr. E. LoRT Phillips sent for exhibition specimens of 

 new species of Merula and Corviis from Somaliland. These 

 two species had been discovered during the past winter 

 spent bv him in that country. These he proposed to call 



^Ierula ludovici.Ej sp. n. 

 Similis M. simiUimce et M. nigropileo ex penlnsuld Indica, 

 sed facie laterali et gutture toto nigerrimis facile dis- 

 tinguenda. Long. tot. 8*3 poll., culm. 0'8j ake ^'Qo, 

 caudjE 3'9, tarsi 1-2. 



Corviis edith-E^ sp. n. 

 C similis C. corone, sed minor et corporis plumis ad basin 

 dimidiatim pure albis, alis minimi viridi nitentibus sed 

 purpurascenti-chalybeis distinguendus. Long. tot. 16'5 

 poll., culm. 1'95, alije 12"4., caudee 6"2, tarsi 2. 



Mr. Bidwell exhibited an old model of a Great Auk's 

 ^^^, believed to have been made in France about the year 

 1853, and undoubtedly one of the first models ever made. 

 It was a copy of one of the eggs formerly in the possession of 

 the late T. H. Potts, and purchased by the late Lord Garvagh 

 at Stevens^ Auction Rooms on ^lay 2-ith, 1853, for £30. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe made some remarks on the interest- 

 ing collection of birds brought by Colonel Yerbury from 

 the neighbourhood of Aden, a full account of whicb will 

 appear in ' The Ibis.' Special attention was drawn to the 

 Argya and Mi/rmecocichla. The former had been alluded to 

 by Lieut. Barnes (Ibis, 1893, p. ISO) as Argya, sp. inc., and 

 it was therefore interesting to find that it was the true 

 A. squamiceps (Cretzschm.), though this was to have been 

 expected. On comparing the Palestine bird usually called 

 A. squamiceps, it pi'oved to belong to a different species, and 

 a mistake had been made in the ' Catalogue of Birds/ vol. vii, 

 p. 395, in uuitiug the two. The Palestine bird must be kept 

 (listiuct as Argya chalghea (Bp.), 



Another instance of a difference between Palestine and 

 Arabian forms was seen in the case of jMyrmecocidiJa 

 liio/anura. Colonel Yerbury's specimens from Aden agreed 

 with others from Abvssinia and Somaliland ; but the Palestine 



