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and further to the north. I have therefore much pleasure 

 in naming this very well-marked subspecies after Mr. W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant, 



Pterythius xanthochloris occidentalism subsp. n. 



Adult. Similar to P. xanthochloris, Hodgs., but the male 

 has the crown and nape pale ash-grey instead of blackish. 

 In the female the head is greenish, with a wash of grey 

 instead of dai^k grey. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya. 



Obs. Mr. Oates has already drawn attention to the fact 

 that birds from Nepal and Sikhim have the head much 

 darker than those from the N.W. Himalaya. 



Type in the British Museum : ~$ . Dehra (G. F. L. 

 Marshall). Tweeddale coll. 



Pterythius pallidus hybrida, subsp. n. 



Adult. Intermediate between P. pallidus David, from 

 China, and P. xanthochloris Hodgs., from Nepal, having a 

 white ring round the eye as in the former, but the grey of 

 the head confined to the crown and nape, as in the latter. 

 The coloration of the underparts is also similar to that 

 of P. xanthochloris. 



Hab. Mt. Victoria, Chin Hills. 



Type in the British Museum : <$ , 25.iii.04; ? , 18.iv.04: 

 Mt. Victoria. G-. Ilippon coll. 



Mr. W. E. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited an immature male 

 example of the Carolina Crake (Porzana Carolina), which 

 had been shot on the 12th of November by Mr. A. Blain in 

 a bog near Ness, Stornoway, in the Island of Lewis, Outer 

 Hebrides. This was the fourth known instance of the 

 occurrence of this American species in the British Isles. 

 The specimen exhibited had been forwarded as an example 

 of the Spotted Crake (P. porzana), an immature example of 

 which was also exhibited to show the differences between the 

 two species. Three out of the four British-killed examples 

 were now in the National Collection, Mr. H. S. Eyre having 

 recently presented the adult killed on the Kennet, near 



