?\Ir. Ernst liAF.TEitT cxliibited a specimen of the rare 

 Mazorneia lafargiu Hombr. .S:c Jacq., hitlierto only known 

 from ilje type in the Paris; ]!\Iu^eum, T]ie specimen was 

 f]'c.m the Solomon Islands, either from Guadalcanal or 

 Bougainville Island. 



]\Ir. ScLATEK exliiliited an egg of the '"' Tnrco '^ of tlie 

 Cliilinns [Hylucies ruegapodius]^ belonging to the late 

 Islv. Berl;elcy James''s Collection, and obtained by Mr. A. A. 

 Lane iit Hacienda ]\Iansel, as described in 'Tlielbis' for 

 189r (p. 44). The colour was ^^"hite, but with an earthy 

 brownisli stain, and I'atljer snio<jtli texture, the dimensions 

 1"35 by 1"05. So far as !Mr. Sclater knew, this was the first 

 egg of any species of the family I'terojAocUidce yet described. 



Dr. BoM'nLER Sharpe sent for cxln'bitio)! some specimens 

 of birds from Christmas Island in the Indian Oceau^ where 

 they had been collected by ]Mr. C. "W. Andrews. The species 

 exhibited were. Men/la erytltrcphiira (Sharpe)^ ZoHerops 

 natalis, Lister. CoJIocalia natcdis. Li:^te]'. Carpopliaga ivhar- 

 toid, Sliarpe, Chulcopjluip^^ naial'is, Lister. Astur natalis, 

 Lister^ J^inox nataUs^ Lister, Trlncjo'idts lujiiohucus (L.), 

 Lvninohcinvf; fuscus (Linn.), Mesophoyx phunifera (Gould), 

 Dc'iniegrt'tta sacra (Gm.), Salasuhi ['L.)^ Pha'eion plianicurus 

 (L.), P . fluvo-aarar/tlus, Lawr. The Lbnnobceaus and Meso- 

 phoyx were additions to the list of Christmas Island birds, as 

 published by ^Ir. J. J. Lister (P. Z. S. 18SS, pp. 517-329). 



}Jr. AV. Pi. Ogilvie Grant made some remarks on the 

 Ti'opic-Bird [Pliaetun ^flavo-arcraniius , Lawreuce) obtained by 

 ]\Ir. r. AV. Andrews on the above-n'acntioned island. 



This apricot-coloured form had been figured by Reichcu- 

 bach [Syst. Av. pi. 30. fig. 852 (1850)] under the name 

 of P. flavirostris. Braudt, and subsequently described by 

 Lawrence [Ann. Lye. N. York, vii. p. 142 (18G2)] as a 

 distinct species from a skin of unknown origin. In 1887 

 j\Ir. J. J. Lister visited Christmas Island and collected 

 there examples of this "fine golden-pmk " Boatswain- 

 Bird, which were entered in his list (/. c.) under the name 



