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thi'oat, the light brown (not deep rufous) hind-neck^ and tlie 

 pale greyish- Dro^vn (not blackish) crown. 



Hab. Kossel Island^ where .Mr. Albert S. Meek has collected 

 a small series. 



Mr. E.OTHSCHILD also sent for exhibition a skin of the rare 

 Pitta novcehibemice^ ilamsay. This species had been long ago 

 described bv Dr. Ramsay and the differences from P. mackloti 

 had been stated in the original description. Count Salvadori 

 afterwards expressed an opinion that it was the same as 

 P. niaclcloti, because he had seen specimens from New Britain 

 whicli did not difi'er from P. mackloti — evidently in the belief 

 that the ornis of New Ireland was "the same as that of New 

 Britain. Now Captain Cayley Webster had sent a series of 

 a Pitta from New Hanover which agreed perfectly with the 

 description of Poamsay^ and differed much from P. mackloti in 

 the absence of the black throat and breast-baud, as well as 

 in having the nape and hind-neck bright red. The species 

 must therefore, for the present, bear the name of P, novcB- 

 hibernice. 



Mr. Rothschild further described and sent for exhibition, 

 together with its nearest ally, N. melanotis, a pair of a new 

 Nesomimus, which he described as follows : — 



-NeSOMIMUS CARKINGTOM, Sp. n. 



Nearest to N. melanutis, from which it differs in its longer 

 bill, shorter wing, somewhat paler upper surface, and less 

 heavy black spots on the fianks. Wing, ^ \]Q^ ? 100 mm.; 

 tail, S 110, ? 105; culmen, c? 34, ? 32. 



Hab. BarriDgton Island, Galapagos. 



Mr. PtOTHSCHiLD also sent for exhibition specimens of 

 Tanysiptera rosseliana, Syma megarhyncha, Salvad.. Strepera 

 rosa-alba, De \^is {= Craciicus louisiadensis , Tristr.), Parotia 

 he'leiup, De Vis, which, with the exception of the Tanysiptera 

 and Cracticus, had not before been seen in this country, nor 

 shown to the B. O. Club, and a series of Phony (/a?nmusjamesi, 

 Sharpe, showing the plumage at different ages. 



