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Another interesting bird procured by Mr. Bates was a 

 white-spotted Crake, which did not seem to be quite the 

 same as Canir alius oculeus of the Gold Coast. It was identical, 

 however, with the bird from the Cameroons, and Dr. Sharpe 

 had already referred (Cat. B. xxiii. p. 73) to the differences 

 exhibited by the birds of the latter country. He therefore 

 proposed to describe the Crake from the French Congo and 

 the Cameroons as 



Canirallus batesi, sp. n. 

 Ad. Similis C. oculeo, sed saturatior, dorso saturate olivas- 

 centi-brunneo, nee virescenti-olivaceo : pileo sordide 

 brunneo, nee rufescenti-brunneo : fronteet facie lateraii, 

 sicut in C. oculeo, cinereis, regione auriculari quoque 

 cinereo. Long. tot. 110 poll., culm. 135, alas 6 - 3, caudae 

 2*4, tarsi T95. 



Among other interesting birds obtained on the Rio Benito 

 on the same occasion were examples of Bubulcus lucidus and 

 Calopelia brehmeri. 



Dr. Sharpe likewise exhibited a specimen of a Goshawk 

 from British Guiana, from the collection of Mr. F. V. 

 McConnell. Feeling sure that it was Astur jardinii of 

 Gurney (Ibis, 1887, p. 96, pi. iii.), Dr. Sharpe had sent the 

 specimen to Mr. James Reeve, the Director of the Castle 

 Museum at Norwich, for comparison with the type and unique 

 example of the species in that museum. Mr. Reeve stated 

 that the Guiana example was identical with the type of 

 A. jardinii, and therefore the habitat of the species, previously 

 unknown, was now identified as Guiana. 



Mr. Ogilvie Grant, on behalf of Mr. C. B. Rickett, 

 exhibited a very distinct new species of Scops Owl, for which 

 Mr. Rickett proposed the name of 



Scops latouchi, sp. n. 



Adult male. This species belongs to the yellow-billed group 

 of the genus Scojjs, and is apparently most nearly allied to 

 S. icterorhyncha, Shelley, from the Gold Coast, and more 

 distantly related to S. rufescens (Horsf.), from Malacca and 

 the Sunda Islands. The pale frontal band is, however, less 



