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larger size, in having the forehead grey without white tips 

 to the frontal feathers, and with the superciliaries and sides 

 of the face not conspicuously marked with white • the 

 feathers of the lower neck and breast with_a decided wash of 

 oily greyish green and with slightly indicated bars of dull 

 greyish, without white centres as in T. castanonota. ff Iris 

 yellow ; feet yellow ; bill brown " (dull greenish olive in 

 skin). 



Total length 183 mm., wing 106, tail 48, culmen 23, 

 tarsus 25. 



Hah. North Queensland (Cooktown, June 25th, 1899). 



The species was named after its collector, Mr. E. Olive, who 

 is known in Australia as a careful and accurate field-naturalist. 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited a specimen of Geocichla 

 papuensis of Seebohm, which he had recently received from 

 the Aroa River, British New Guinea. He pointed out the 

 mature characters of the species, which was originally 

 described from an immature specimen hitherto unique in 

 the British Museum. 



Mr. Harry F. Witherby exhibited a specimen of Limosa 

 lapponica in down, obtained out of a brood of four from a 

 marsh near the Imandra Lake, in Russian Lapland, on the 

 16th of July, 1899. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert showed some nesting-boxes for the 

 encouragement of birds which breed in holes. Mr. Hartert 

 stated that he had very little faith in the customary methods 

 of bird-protection, which consisted of praising and over- 

 rating the usefulness of birds, and of advocating more and 

 more stringent bird-protection laws. 



There was, however, another kind of bird-protection, 

 which might be called " practical " protection. This origi- 

 nated from the understanding that it was not generally the 

 killing of certain birds that made many of our species become 

 scarcer, but the progress of cultivation of the ground, the 

 careful keeping of our gardens, modern forestry, and similar 



