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Dr. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited a specimen of a Pitta 

 procured by Mr. J. Ffolliott Darling near Salisbury in 

 Rhodesia, at a height of 6000 feet. The specimen appeared 

 to be Pitta longipennis of Reichenow (Orn. MB. ix. p. 117, 

 1901), described from Northern Nyasa Land. It was of a 

 lighter green colour than P. angolensis, but had much longer 

 wings, lacked the dark brown stripe on the side of the crown, 

 and had only a single broad stripe of pale ochre. The eau- 

 de-nil blue tips were confined to the lesser coverts, and the 

 tips of the greater series were ultramarine. In addition to 

 these characters, the white speculum on the primaries and 

 the white tips to the outer secondaries were much larger. 

 P. reichenowi, Madarasz (Orn. MB. ix. p. 133) seemed from 

 the description to be quite a different species. 



Dr. Sharpe also exhibited specimens of a new species of 

 Petrel from the island of South Trinidad, procured by the 

 Naturalists of the 'Discovery/ It was nearly allied to 

 (Estrelata arminjoniana, Gigl. & Salvad., but was altogether 

 a blacker bird with a much more massive bill. The name 

 proposed was 



(Estrelata wilsoni. 



$ ad. Similis (E. arminjoniance, sed nigricans, nee brunnea : 

 subtus alba, hypochonclriis, axillaribus et subalaribus 

 nigricantibus ; torque gutturali angusta nigricante, et 

 guise plumis anguste nigro limbatis ; subcaudalibus 

 quoque terminaliter nigris : rostro nigro; tarsis et pedibus 

 carneis, dimidiatim nigro terminatis ; iride saturate 

 brunnea. Long. tot. circa 12*5 poll., culm. 1*1, alas 11*0, 

 caudse 4'35, tarsi 1*25. 

 Named after Dr. E. F. Wilson, the naturalist attached to 

 the National Antarctic Exploring-ship ' Discovery.' 



Dr. J. von Madarasz wrote to point out that the name 

 Muelleria, proposed by Dr. Biittikofer for a genus of Timeliida 

 (cf. Notes Leyden Mus. xvii. pp. 68, 96, 1895), had been 

 preoccupied more than once since 1803, and could not be 

 employed in Ornithology. He therefore proposed the name 

 of Buettikoferia in its place. 



