in the islands of I)jan;rer. and Knino. between Celebes and 

 Flores. A full accjiiui of these^ ■^vitli descriptions of some 

 nevr species and sn-'>pecies. ^voijd. appear in tlie forthcoming 

 number of the ' Novitates Zooic£,icfe ' •. meauAvhile; as 

 examples of the collections, specimens v,-ere exhibited of the 

 rare Oriohis honercitnsh. lMeve].\ and Trichcylossus forsteni. 



]Mr. Hartert also exhibited a new Pathycephala and a 

 nev^ Pitta collected by the weH-knoAvn entomologist William 

 Doherty on the island oi' Siiinba^. or .j'andaiwood. These he 

 characterized as follows : — 



Pachycephala iLL^-iVEXTr.iS; sp. nov. 



Pachycephala speciei F. fuhviiacta dictfe affinis^ sed maris 

 pectore abdcmineane toto saturate a'arautio-ochraceis^ 

 alls longioribns. 2 siniihirna fernina; speciei P./w/yo- 

 tincta dictse, alis longiohbus. gutture albidiore^ abdomine 

 fiavicantiore distinguenda. Al. J S6"6; $ 84 mm.^ 

 culm. 26; caud. 6G'5, 



Hah. Sumba. 



■ Pitta maria^ sp. nor. 



Rather close to Fitfa irena, ^liilh. but some^vhat darker 

 brovrn belovr^ the black of the: throat reaching lower down, 

 the red colour in the middle of the abdomen evidently not 

 mixed with black on its upper i part,, and the wing, instead 

 of having a large white spetuium on the outer six or 

 seven primaries, is only oruam/^nted with a small concealed 

 spot of white on the fifth quill. Culm. 23 mm., wing 109, 

 tars. 35 "6. 



Hab. Mountains of Sumba. Named in honour of Miss 

 Maria de Korte. 



!Mr. Howard Saunders gave a short account of a visit made 

 by Col. H. W. Feilden and himself to the Pyrenees, chieflv 

 the Eastern districts. Continuously nnfavotirable weather 

 and heavy falls of soft snow hampered their movements, 

 but they managed to obtain sonre interesting facts regarding 

 distribution of birds. Inasmuch as Catalonia, the chief 



