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several of the members. He also showed a specimen from 

 the Yenesei which had the entire throat red as in true 

 E. leucocephala. 



Mr. Millais regarded the red-cheeked form as not so rare 

 as supposed, and exhibited another British-killed specimen. 

 Mr. Walter Rothschild showed several British examples 

 from various localities, and mentioned having seen numbers 

 of E. leucocephala in Italy. He also exhibited some males 

 of Emberiza citrinella, to show that the chestnut moustachial 

 streak or patch was only an individual and not very unfre- 

 quent character. None of the British specimens had the 

 full red throat, with the exception of Mr. Montagu's 

 specimen. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., exhibited a new 

 Woodpecker, which he described as follows : — 



Chloronerpes LiTiE, n. sp. 



$ . Differs from its nearest ally, Chloronerpes leucolcsmus, 

 in the following points : — The bases of the primaries are 

 uniform chestnut. This colour increases in extent on the 

 outer webs from the first to the last primary. Except on 

 the innermost ones, this chestnut colour extends over the 

 whole outer webs, while in C. leucolcsmus all the outer webs 

 are so widely edged with green that the chestnut is entirely 

 hidden. The red on the crown and moustache is much 

 darker blood-red, the greenish olive of the upper surface is 

 darker. The cream-coloured feathers of the throat have 

 lateral spots of deep greenish olive-brown. The chest has 

 narrow central cream-coloured streaks, which widen out into 

 roundish spots on the tip, while in C. leucolcsmus these spots 

 are quite round and not streak -like at all. Abdomen not 

 regularly banded but marked more spotty. Wing 105 mm., 

 tail 60, bill 20, metatarsus 15. 



Type <$ : Lita, North Ecuador, 3000 feet high, Sep- 

 tember 12th, 1899. " Iris reddish brown. Feet bluish grey. 

 Bill dark grey, more bluish grey underneath" (R. Miketta). 



Mr. Rothschild further exhibited the real male of Dacnis 

 berlepschi, Hart., described in the Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 37. 



