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Tristan. The egg, which had formerly belonged to his great 

 grandfather, the Marquis de Tristan, who died in 1861, had 

 been lost sight of for many years. 



The Rev. J. R. Hale (on behalf of Mr. T. P. Aldwortu) 

 exhibited a nest and two eggs of Palliser's Warbler 

 (JElaphrornia ' palliseri) together with the female parent. 



Mr. Aldworth said : — "I found the nest of this bird on 

 the 10th of April, 1911, while it was being built in a small 

 shrub of the Laurel family, at about 3 feet from the ground. 

 The situation was an open patch in dense jungle on the 

 banks of a mountain-stream running from the Horton 

 Plains to the Bogawantalawa Valley. The nest was com- 

 pleted about the 23rd, and the eggs were taken on the 28th. 

 Though I visited the nest on several occasions, I failed to 

 see any sign of the bird, till she commenced to sit. The 

 nest was composed of moss, twigs, and coarse grass-stalks, 

 lined with skeleton leaves and grass-fibre, deeply cupped 

 and rather compact. The eggs had the ground-colour 

 pinkish-white, thickly freckled with purplish-brown and 

 grey under-markings, with one or two brown hair-streaks 

 on the larger end. The shy and skulking habits of this 

 bird would seem to point to it being a Warbler and not a 

 Thrush, as, though fairly common in the jungle round the 

 Horton Plains, it w r as seldom seen/' 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited and described examples of 

 a new species of Shrike obtained by Mr. G. W. Bury in the 

 highlands of Yemen. He proposed to name this very 

 distinct form 



Lanius yemenensis, sp. n. 



Adult female. This species has no near ally, but most 

 nearly resembles in general appearance L, raddei Dresser, 

 from Transcaspia ; it is, however, a much larger bird (about 

 the same size as L. excubitor) and lacks the white super- 

 ciliary stripes, while the white wing-speculum formed by 

 the bases of the primary-quills is very large, extending far 

 beyond the coverts. 



General colour of the upperparts including the crown 



