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Mr. Meade-Waldo said that in 1892, when lie first brought 

 back examples of G. whitakeri from the mountains near 

 Tangier and Tetuan, they had been identified by the late 

 Dr. Sharpe as G. cervicalis. He also made remarks on the 

 abundance of G. minor in the damp forests on the north side 

 of the Great Atlas, in Southern Morocco. 



Dr. E. Hartert said that it was, of course, very valuable 

 to have actually compared specimens of Garrulus minor 

 from the type-locality with those collected in Morocco by 

 Messrs. Dodson, Meade- Waldo, and Riggenbach, though the 

 original description and figure (cf. Verreaux, Rev. & Mag. 

 Zool. 1857, p. 439, pi. 14) left little doubt that the latter, 

 which had been named Garrulus oenops by Mr. Whitaker, 

 belonged to the same species, and he had therefore united 

 them as long ago as 1903 (cf. Vog. Pal. Eaun. i. p. 31). 

 Mr. Riggenbach had found this little Jay quite common 

 in the Moroccan Atlas, to the west of the place where 

 Mr. Meade- Waldo observed it. 



Mr. Whitaker had probably renamed this Jay after he had 

 compared it with the specimen in the British Museum which 

 had been wrongly identified as G. minor ^ and which was, in 

 fact, G. whitakeri Hart., as Mr. Rothschild had remarked. 



The Hon. W. Rothschild also exhibited adult examples, 

 together with the joung and eggs, of the curious Lark, 

 Chersophilus duponti, obtained by Dr. Hartert at Ain Oussera, 

 Central Algeria, and stated that it had now been definitely 

 ascertained that this bird did not occur in the Balearic 

 Islands. The birds bought in the flesh on the Nice Market, 

 and sold as coming from those islands, had probably come 

 from Tunisia. 



Mr. Claude Grant forwarded a description of a new sub- 

 species of Guinea-fowl, for which he proposed the name : — 



NUMIDA PTILORHYNCHA BARINGOENSIS, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Similar in size and colour to N. ptilorhyncha 

 Less., but with a well-developed and considerably larger 

 helmet — this character being very constant. 



