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on the outer secondaries mostly quite round, instead of 

 taking the form of irregular oblique lines ; the upper crest- 

 feathers black, instead of dark brown, the white feathers of 

 the crest apparently more numerous ; the outer webs of 

 the enormously elongated rectrices deeper in colour and 

 more of a blackish brown, and at the same time more uni- 

 form ; the wide superciliary stripe not greyish white, but 

 strongly tinged with rufous ; the bill somewhat stouter. 

 Dimensions the same as those of Rh. ocellalus, but the 

 tail perhaps less elongated, the rectrices of the two males 

 measuring no more than about 2 feet 2 inches, instead of 

 about 3 feet in R. ocellatus. 



Obs. — The female of the new form does not differ from 

 that of Rh. ocellatus ocellatus in any appreciable characters. 

 It is somewhat brighter and more rufous, but this may be 

 due to the freshness of the plumage. 



Types. Two males and one female caught in the eastern 

 Malay Peninsula, at Ulu Pahang, by Mr. Waters trades 

 native hunters. 



A number of lantern-slides were then shown by the 

 members of the Club and their friends *. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited facsimiles of the 

 figures of the " Waldrapp " from the works of Gesner and 

 Aldrovandus, together with a reproduction of Albin's plate 

 of his " Woodcrow from Switzerland." A comparison of 

 these figures clearly proved that Linnseus's Corvus eremita, 

 founded on these illustrations, was referable to the " Ped- 



* The number of slides shown was about 250. The Editor regrets 

 that his report of the exhibition of March 19, 1902, which all the 

 Members agree to have been the most successful of the Club's " lantern " 

 evenings, must be extremely imperfect, as only four of the exhibitors 

 have sent in a list of their slides. Owing to the room being in darkness, 

 it was impossible for the Editor to take notes of the different pictures, 

 and he would be pleased if the exhibitors, on future occasions, would be 

 kind enough to furnish him with the details of their slides, so that the 

 many interesting facts which are brought before the meeting at these 

 reunions may be put on record. — R. B. S. 



