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covertSj hind-neck^ sides of neck, entire back, scapulars, and 

 middle tail-feathers chestnut ; the lesser, median, and greater 

 wing-coverts black tipped with white, like the primary- 

 coverts ; the primary-quills brown, with pale edges to the 

 outer webs, more strongly pronounced towards the base ; 

 the inner secondaries more broadly margined with chestnut 

 on the outer webs ; outer tail-feathers black broadly tipped 

 with white, more narrowly towards the middle, some of the 

 feathers margined with rufous on the outer web ; super- 

 ciliary line whitish-bufF ; lores and a line through the eye 

 black, like the throat and fore-neck ; breast and middle of 

 the abdomen buff, becoming more rufous on the sides 

 of the body, which is divided from the latter by a line of 

 black striations; under tail-coverts brown, spotted with 

 black and tipped with white ; lesser under wing-coverts 

 whitish-buff, greater coverts brown ; quills below pale brown^ 

 with rufous edgings on the inner webs. Bill black ; iris 

 brown ; feet grey. Culmen 19 mm.; tail 73 ; tarsus 28. 



Hab. West Australia. 



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



Mr. P. F. BuNYARD exhibited a series of eggs, including 

 abnormally marked examples of the following species:— 

 Song-Thrush [Turdus musicus) (a clutch of four eggs with 

 the ground-colour pure white) ; Stonechat [Pratincola 

 rubicold) (clutch of five eggs wath the ground-colour green, 

 as in the eggs of the Pied Flycatcher) ; Ringed Plover 

 {^yialitis hiaticola) ; Nightjar iCaprimulgus europceus) ; 

 Lesser Whitethroat {Sylvia curruca) ; and Wood- Lark 

 [Lullula arbor ea) . ^.^ 



He also showed a clutch of eight ^ggs of the Long-eared 

 Owl [Asio otus) and a clutch of eggs taken in Lancashire on 

 the 20th of April, 1910, and believed to be those of the Ruff 

 {Machetes pugnax). They had been sent to him as eggs of 

 the Common Snipe {Gallinago gallinagu), but he considered 

 them to be undoubtedly those of the Ruff. 



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