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bringing the results thus acquired completfilv before the 

 ■world. 



A complete copy of the twenty-sixth volume of the 

 ' Catalogue of Birds ' was laid on the table by Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpk. 



Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh exhibited and made remarks upon 

 a Warbler, Luscinioki sckwarzi (Radde), which he had shot 

 on the 1st of this month^ near North Cotes, Lincolnshire. The 

 large bastard-primary easily distinguished the members of 

 this genus (and those of Herbivocula) from the Phylloscopi. 

 The summer-horae of L. schwarzi appeared to be in South- 

 eastern Siberia, and reached about as far west as Tomsk, 

 according to Godlewski, who had mentioned the powerful note 

 of the bird; this was described by Mr. Haigh as disproportion- 

 ately loud, and it led to the thorough beating-out of the hedge 

 in which the bird was skulking. It would be remembered 

 that easterly winds had prevailed for a considerable time. 

 So far, L. schicarzi seemed not to have been previously re- 

 corded within the European area. A coloured figure of the 

 specimen would appear in the next number of ^ The Ibis.' 



Mr. Haigh also exhibited a specimen of a young female 

 of the Barred Warbler {Sylvia nisoria) , which he shot near 

 North Cotes on the oth of September last. This was the 

 thirteenth example obtained in the British Islands. 



Mr. N. F. TicEHURST exhibited a Pectoral Sandpiper 

 [Heteroiiyyia maculata) obtained between Lydd and Rye, in 

 Kent, oil the 2nd of August, 1898. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent a pair of a new Pitta, 

 which he described as follows : — 



Pitta meeki, sp. n. 



Superficially resembling the common P. mackloti from New 

 Guinea, from which, however, it differs in the absence of the 

 large black spot on the throat, which is only indicated by a 

 dusky shade, the paler and more greyish chin and upper 



