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Mr. C. Chubb forwarded a description of a new species of 

 Tinamou from Ecuador : — 



" The bird which I propose to describe as a new species is 

 in the collection of the British Museum, and came from 

 Ecuador. It has been associated with Nothocercus Julius , from 

 Colombia, but is different, as Count Salvadori has suggested 

 (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 510), and is distinguished 

 chiefly by the much wider bars on the upper surface and 

 the entire absence of black frecklings. I propose therefore 

 the name of 



" Nothocercus salvadorii, sp. n. 



"Adult. Top of head dark chestnut, paler on the forehead ; 

 nape, hinder face, and ear-coverts dusky brown, the feathers 

 minutely barred and tipped with rufous ; lower hind-neck, 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, and wings black, barred 

 across with olive, the olive bars becoming brighter and 

 inclining to rufous on the inner secondaries, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and tail ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 uniform brown, becoming darker brown on the secondaries, 

 which are barred or notched with rufous on the outer webs 5 

 some of the innermost secondaries barred on both webs at 

 the tips ; throat white ; fore-neck and sides of the neck 

 ochreous-olive, very narrowly barred with black ; breast 

 rusty buff, becoming paler on the middle of the abdomen and 

 vent ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs black, with, olive 

 cross-bars ; under tail-coverts black barred with olive and 

 tipped with rusty buff; under wing-coverts uniform dusky 

 brown, becoming greyish-brown on the large series and 

 quill-lining. Total length 320 mm. ; culmen 28 ; wing 190; 

 tail 50 ; tarsus 59 ; middle toe and claw 46." 



Mr. P. F. Bunyard exhibited eggs of the following 

 species : — 



1. Tree-Pipit (Anthus trivialis). A clutch of six ex- 

 ceptionally heavily marked eggs of the spotted or blotched 

 type (No. 4), from Northampton ; a clutch of six eggs of 

 the mottled purplish-red type (No. 2) devoid of gloss, from 

 Northampton (cf. Brit. Birds, ii. pp. 337-8). 



