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Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited examples of two 

 rare species of birds which had been procured by the 

 Members of the Bo O. U. Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. 

 The first of these w^as the Yellow Cuckoo-Shrike (^Campo- 

 chcera sloetii, Schl,), of which both sexes had been obtained, 

 the female being hitherto unrepresented in the National 

 Collection ; the other "was the Spotted-headed Honey-eater 

 [Pycnopygius stictocephalus, Salvad.), a very scarce species, 

 the only other specimen in this country being an example in 

 the Triug Museum. \_Cf. Hartert & Rothschild, Nov. Zool. 

 x. p. 451 (1903).] 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also described two new species o£ 

 birds collected by the late Mr. Wilfred Stalker in Ceram, 

 during the B.O.U. Expedition to Dutch New Guinea : — 



COLUMBA STALKERI, Sp. n. 



Adult female. Most nearly allied to C. mada, Hartert, 

 from Burn, but differs in the following points : — The crown, 

 nape, and upper mantle are paler grey ; the sides of the 

 head, throat, chest, and upper breast rich greyish-vinaceous, 

 the chin and throat being paler, and the lower breast and 

 belly darker, with the basal part of the feathers chestnut. 

 Under tail-coverts dark chestnut, bordered with greyish- 

 vinaceous. Tail-feathers black, with a purplish gloss, nar- 

 rowly fringed with pale greyish-brown. Iris scarlet and 

 yellow ; naked skin round the eye scarlet ; bill yellowy 

 purple at the base of the upper mandible ; feet purple. 

 Total length (in the flesh) 13 inches ; exposed portion of 

 culraen 0-7 ; wing 8-5 ; tail 6'1. 



An immature male in worn plumage differs chiefly in 

 being paler below and in having the chin and throat pure 

 white, while the grey feathers of the under wing-coverts are 

 mostly tipped with rufous. Iris scarlet and yellow ; bill 

 horn-colour ; feet dark purple. Total length (in the flesh) 

 14'2 inches; wing 8*1 ; tail 6-05. 



Hah. Mountains of North Ceram. 



Type in the British Museum. ? . No. 333. Kanobi 

 Mountains, ,2500 ft. Oct. 1909. W. Stalker Coll. 



