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whitish edgings to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white. Iris deep brown ; bill bluish with a black 

 tip ; feet and legs nearly black. Culmen 22 mm. ; wing 136 ; 

 tail 7o ; tarsus 22 . 



ffab. Rockingham, West Australia, 



Type No. 2467. Coll. G. M. Mathews. 



Named in honour of Mr. T. H. Tregellas. 



BUTORIDES ROGERSI, Sp. n. 



Head, crest, and tail greenish-black ; mantle^ back, and 

 entire under surface reddish-buff, with white bases to the 

 feathers ; primaries brown, outer edges fringed with buff; 

 secondaries brown with a greenish tinge ; remainder of the 

 wing brown, with reddish edges to the feathers ; the plumes 

 on the back greenish ; a tuft of feathers at the gape blackish. 

 Culmen 66 mm. ; wing 183 ; tail 58 ; tarsus 53. 



Hab. North-west Australia. 



Type No. 4502. Coll. G. M. Mathews. 



Mr. C. Chubb sent for exhibition examples of a new 

 species of Upucerfhia from Southern Chile,: which he pro- 

 posed to call 



Upucerthia tamucoensis^ sp. n. 



Adult male. Allied to U. dumetoria, Geoff, et d^Orb., but 

 smaller, having the upper surface dark olive-brown instead 

 of ash-grey, and the underparts, especially the flanks, sooty- 

 brown instead of rufous-brown. Total length 5"7 inches ; 

 culmen 1*1; wing4'l; tail 29; tarsus 0*95. 



Hab. Tamuco, Southern Chile, 



Mr. J. L. BoNHOTE exhibited an example of the Conti- 

 nental Blue Tit (Parus ctsruleus ccuruleus, Linn.), which he 

 had shot in Peebleshire some years ago. He stated that 

 the Continental race probably occurred in England every 

 autumn, but, so far as he knew, had not previously been 

 recorded. 



