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Mr. E. BiDWELL exhibited a number of photographs of 

 mounted birds in the Hancock Collection at the Newcastle 

 Museum. Some of these birds were among the rarest 

 visitors to Great Britain [e.g. the Black Kite and the 

 Red-necked Nightjar), while others (such as the Northern 

 Falcons, the Great Auk, &c.) were fine examples of the late 

 Mr. Hancoclc's skill in taxidermy. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke called attention to three species of 

 birds hitherto unrecognized in Franz Josef Land. Of these, 

 he exhibited a skin of the Shore- Lark [Otocorys alpestris) , 

 and also one of Bonaparte's Sandpiper [Tringa fuscicollis 

 Vieill.), obtained on June 28th, by Mr. Bruce, of the 

 Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, The occurrence of the 

 latter species was remarkable, inasmuch as its Arctic range 

 was only known to extend from Greenland westward to 

 Point Barrow, Alaska. The third unrecorded species was 

 the Purple Sandpiper (Tringa striata Linn.), the eggs and 

 downy young of which were obtained. 



Mr. W, R. Ogilvie Grant exhibited on behalf of 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe (absent, owing to illness), a few skins 

 from a collection of birds made in Mashona-land by 

 Mr. J. Lawrence Sowerby, late of the B. S. A. Co. Police. 

 Among these were examples of several interesting species, 

 including Melierax meehovn, Monticoln angolensis, S:c., and 

 a new Barbet, which Dr. Sharpe proposed to call 



Stactol.ema sowerbyi, sp. n. 

 Similis S. anchietce, sed men to a! bo, gutture et prrepectore 

 nigricantibus, gastrrei plumis albido apicatis, tibiis albis, 

 distingueuda. Long. tot. Cyii poll., alee 3'7o. 



Mr. Grant also read descriptions of three new species of 

 birds recently obtained by ^Nfessrs. C. B. Rickett and 

 J. de La Touche in the Province of Fohkien : — 



1. Cryptolopha sinensis Rickett, sp. n. 



Like C. castaneiceps Hodgs., but the breast and belly are 

 uniform yellow and only the outermost pair of tail-feathers 

 have the inner web white. AVing r85-2-0 inches. 



