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Museum^ Ireland^ whence it had been forwarded for identi- 

 fication. It was well known that during the last few years 

 this species had been imported into England, and had been 

 kept in captivity at Woburn, where it had bred in. 1909. It 

 was therefore quite possible that the bird exhibited might be 

 one of the full-winged offspring which had escaped, and this 

 fact should not be lost sight of. 



Mr. Clifford Borrer, on behalf of Mr. F. I. Richards, 

 exhibited two of our rarer British visitors which had been 

 obtained last month in Norfolk : one was an adult Tawny 

 Pipit (Anthus campesti'is) procured on the 15th of Sep- 

 tember, the second was an immature Barred Warbler (^Sylvia 

 nisoria) procured on the 27th of that month. 



Major F. W. Proctor exhibited a clutch of eggs of the 

 Greenish Willow-Warbler (Phylloscopus viridanus) which 

 had been procured at Issik-Kul, Turkestan, by Mr. Kutzenko^s 

 collectors on the 1st of May, 1909 ; the eggs, four in number, 

 were pure white without any traces of markings. 



Mr. G. M. Mathews exhibited an example of a new 

 subspecies of Creeper which had been collected by Mr. T. 

 Carter, who proposed to describe it as follows : — 



Climacteris rufa OBscuRA,*subsp. n. 



Differs from typical examples of C. rvfa, Gould, in being 

 very much darker in colour both above and below. The 

 bill is longer and more curved, and the measurement of the 

 wing is less, being 86 mm. 



In an example of C. rufa from Broom Hill, the wing 

 measures 93 mm. 



Hah. Warren River, South-west Australia. 



The type is in the collection of Mr. G. M. Mathews. 



Mr. Mathews also exhibited and described an example of 

 a new species of Ground-Bird, which he named 



CiNCLOSOMA ALISTERI, Sp. n. 



Adult male. Upper surface, including the head, ear- 



