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darker all over. The rufous in /. cruentus is replaced by 

 brown in /. c. kuseri and the breast is vermiculated with 

 brown and. buff instead, of being almost plain rusty-rufous 

 as in the former bird. The slate-colour of the head and 

 nape is much darker, almost black, and the chestnut of the 

 forehead and sides of the head of a richer colour. 



" The dimensions of both sexes appear to be the same as 

 in I. cruentus. 



" The colours of the soft parts are not given by Capt. 

 Bailey, but in the fresh skin the legs of the male are of a 

 vivid scarlet-lake with two short black spurs on each leg. 

 The bill is brownish horn-colour, almost black. In the 

 female the legs are a dull horny brown, very possibly more 

 flesh-coloured in life, and the bill is practically black. 



" In a letter which I have received the birds are said to 

 have been met with between 18,000 and 12,000 feet, but as the 

 two specimens sent were taken at about 8000 feet the former 

 height of 18,000 may be merely a clerical error for 8000." 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain exhibited a clutch of eggs of 

 the Spur-winged Plover, Hoplopterus spinosus (L.), taken by 

 Mr. F. R. S. Baxendale on the 1st of June, 1913, at Kouklia 

 Reservoir, Cyprus. Although this species was said to have 

 nested previously on the island, this was the first time that it 

 had been definitely proved to breed there. The clutch was 

 also remarkable on account of its containing the unusual 

 number of five eggs, which in this case were undoubtedly the 

 produce of the same bird. 



Mr. R. H. Read also exhibited a clutch of four eggs of 

 the Spur-winged Plover, taken in Egypt, together with the 

 skin of an adult bird. 



Major F. W. Proctor exhibited eggs of the following 

 species : — 



1. A set of 8 eggs of the Great Titmouse (Pa?-us major 

 newtoni) taken at Maidenhead Thicket on the 21st of May, 

 1010. The eggs had been laid in the nest of a Hawfinch, 



