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Mr. ScLATER exhibited a second series of beautiful photo- 

 graphs of the nests and eggs of Australian Birds, transmitted 

 to him by Mr. Dudley Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., Assistant- 

 Director of the Zoological Gardens at Melbourne. Amongst 

 these were figures of the nests of the Victoria Lyre-bird 

 {Menura victorice), the Emu-Wren [Stipiturus makichnrus) , 

 and the rarely-found nest (with one egg) of Jardine-'s 

 Caterpillar-hunter [Campephaga jardinii). 



Mr. Erxst Hartert exhibited the type specimens of two 

 new birds obtained by Mr. A. L. Butler on the Gunong 

 Ijau, Perak, Malay Peninsula, and characterized them as 

 follows : — 



Serilophus rothschildi, Hartert & Butler, sp. n. 



Differs from S. lunatus — with which it agrees in the 

 peculiarly shaped tips of the longest primaries — in being 

 darker and greyer above; crown of the head pure grey, not 

 pale rusty brown ; ear-coverts grey, with hardly a tint of 

 brown, while they are pale brown in S. lunatus, and the 

 rufous colour on the secondaries is deeper; round the eye 

 a narrow ring of white feathers. "Iris greenish brown, 

 mottled with golden specks ; eyelid and base of mandible 

 for about |- inch bright gamboge-yellow ; bill pale w^hitish 

 blue, tip and lateral edges whitish ; feet pale greenish 

 chrome, claws milky blue " {A. L. Butler). 



Hah. Gunong Ijau, 3000 feet. Named in honour of 

 Mr. Walter Rothschild, by Mr. Butler's request. 



Cryptolopha butleri, Hartert, sp. n. 



$ ad. Crown of the head dark rufous, with a broad deep 

 brown lateral stripe ; sides of the head and back ashy grey ; 

 lower back, rump, scapulars, smaller upper-wing-coverts, 

 edges to the primaries and rectrices, yellowish green ; larger 

 upper-wing-coverts blackish, with a greenish w^ash and 

 greenish-yellow tips ; throat and fore-neck to the chest pale 

 grey; middle of the abdomen white; sides of body, under 

 wing-coverts, axillaries, veut_, and under tail-coverts lemon- 



