Meetings of Section I. 43 



changed for an eclipse plumage, during which the complete 

 annual change of all the feathers took place. 



11. Dr. A. Dubois : Remarques au sujet de certains 

 oiseau méconnus. 



This paper dealt with certain types of species of birds in 

 the Brussels museum which had been referred to other closely 

 allied species, but were really distinct. 



1. Bycanistes leucopygius, Dubois, had been wrongly 



regarded by certain ornithologists as the male 

 of B. sharpii, Elliot: on the other hand the 

 latter name was really synonymous with B. 

 fistulator, Cass. 



2. Tiga bomeonensis, Dubois, was perfectly distinct from 



T. javcmensis, which had the markings on the 

 breast vertical, while in the former they were 

 transverse. 



3. Lampribis olivaeea, Du Bus, was distinct from L. rara, 



Rothsch., Hartert and Kleins ehm., and had nothing 

 to do with Hagedashia hagedash (Lath.). 



Dr. Reichenow stated that his mistake regarding L. 

 olivaeea in his "Yög. Afr." I., p. 325, had already been corrected 

 in the "Orn. Monatsberichte," where the distinctive characters 

 of this species were pointed out, and that his remarks would 

 be republished in the Appendix to his "Yog. Afr." In spite 

 of Dr. Dubois' remarks he was still inclined to consider B. 

 leucopygius as merely an individual aberration of B. sharpii. 



12. Mr. Reiser exhibited specimens from his collection 

 of Brazilian birds made during his recent travels in Bahia 

 and Piauhy in 1903. 



13. The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited a unique copy 

 of a little book entitled "Les Yoyages du Sieur D. B." 

 published in 1674 together with the original map dated 

 1667. 



This work dealt with the birds of Madagascar and the 

 Mascarene Islands, many of the species mentioned being 

 now extinct. 



