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ceptible rufescent tinge, instead o£ warm rufous-brown ; the 

 fore-neck and breast strongly shaded with cinereous, much 

 less suffused with brownish ; the flanks and under tail- 

 coverts much paler fulvous-brown ; the hind-crown purplish- 

 brown like the nape, lacking the clear cinereous colour which 

 is so prominent a feature in the continental form. 



Bill 141-16 mm.; wing 138-142; tail 95-97. 



Hab. The Aripo Mountains, in the northern part of 

 Trinidad, B.W.I. , at elevations of 2000 feet. 



Type in the Zoological Museum, Munich : ? . Aripo, 

 Trinidad, 4. ix. 12. S. M. Klages coll. 



Obs. A small series of this well-characterized Mountain- 

 Pigeon was procured in September 1912. Mr, Cherrie had 

 already obtained a single example in the same locality, but 

 owing to lack of material it was identified with the mainland 

 form, from which, however, it is obviously distinct. 



Dr. E. Hartert described a new form of Starling from 

 Formosa as follows : — 



^THIOPSAR CRISTATELLUS FORMOSANUS, Subsp. n. 



Adult. Differs from JE. c. cristatellus, from China, and 

 j3i. c. brevipennis, from Hainan, in having the frontal crest 

 more developed, and attaining a length of 23 to 27 mm. in 

 adult males, against 15 to 18 mm. in the two allied races. 

 In colour and size it resembles yfe'. c. cristatellus. 



Hab. Island of Formosa. 



Type in the Tring Museum : S ■ No. F 112. Bankoro, 

 Central Formosa, 6. v. 07. Procured by Mr. Owston's 

 Japanese collectors. 



Obs. Twenty specimens have been compared. 



Mr. W. B. Ogilvie-Grant said that as the Meeting had 

 just been hearing of a new Formosan Starling he v/ould 

 like to point out that the recently described Abrornis albi- 

 gularis formosana was founded on immature examples of 

 Cryptolopha fulvifacies (Swinh.), and that adult Formosan 

 specimens were absolutely identical with those from China. 

 All the characters given by Dr. Laubmann (Orn. Mouatsb. 

 XX. p. 174, Nov. 1912) — namely, the whiter throat and 



