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gutture toto albo, prsepectore maculis nigris ornato : 

 rostro corneo, pedibus fuscis. Long, tota 6*2, alee 2*8, 

 caudee 2*7 poll. Angl. 



Hab. iEquatoria occidentalis. 



Obs. Similis T. euophryi, sed gula late alba diagnoscendus. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to the great irruption of 

 Nutcrackers (Nucifraga caryocatactes) wbich had lately 

 taken place in Northern Germany' 55 ' and Holland, and ex- 

 pressed some surprise that some stray members of the flocks, 

 which apparently came from the East, had not reached this 

 country. He exhibited two specimens of this bird procured 

 in Holland and kindly forwarded to him by Mr. F. E. Blaauw, 

 who was inclined to refer them to what is commonly called 

 the thin-billed form (N. c. leptorhyncha) . 



Mr. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. D. Le Souef ? a 

 further set of photographs illustrating the nests and eggs of 

 Australian birds, and called special attention to those repre- 

 senting colonies of the White Egret (Herodias tirnoriensis) 

 (200 feet from the ground), Yellow-billed Spoonbill (Platalea 

 flavipes) (100 feet from the ground), and Little Black Cor- 

 morant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) (about 150 feet from 

 the ground), also to one of a nest of the Great Crested Grebe 

 (Podicipes cristatus), in which the nest was entirely un- 

 covered, contrary to the usual habit of this species, because 

 the bird had been frightened away suddenly from the nest. 



Mr. Sclater likewise called attention to a photograph of 

 a nesting-hole of the Australian Bee-eater {Merops ornatus). 

 The contents of the nest, placed outside, were four young 

 ones, all of different ages, and an unhatched es;g, showing 

 the great interval there must be between the dates of the 

 deposit of the eggs of this bird. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited some legs of the Common 

 Pheasant, showing an absence of spurs in full-plumaged 



* See Dr. R. Blasius in Zeitsch. f. Orn. u. prakt. Geflugelzucbt, 

 Jan. 1, 1901. 



