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Passerine birds was inadmissible, as it was already pre- 

 occupied by Sittiparus of De Selys-Longchamps (Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, ix. p. 58, 1884). Subsequently Mr. Oates 

 (Ibis, 1894, p. 480) had substituted the name Pseudominla 

 for Sittiparus. Dr. Blanches amended name of Proparoides 

 was therefore unnecessary. 



Mr. Howard Saunders drew attention to the frequent 

 occurrence of the Spoonbill (Platalea leucerodia) in Norfolk 

 during the spring of the present year, and to the efforts 

 which were being made for its protection by Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney and other Norfolk naturalists, in the hope that nesting 

 might be resumed. 



Mr. H. L. Popham exhibited some skins and eggs of rare 

 species of Siberian Thrushes from the Yenesei Valley, among 

 them being the eggs of Turdus naumanni. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited specimens of two species of 

 Owls, which, by recent authors (cf. Cat. B. ii. p. 269), had 

 been united, but which were easily distinguishable when 

 actually compared : namely : — 



Ciccaba hylophila (Temm.). 



Strix hylophila, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 373 (1824, "Bresil"). 



This Owl was an inhabitant of Brazil. In the Rothschild 

 Museum were two beautiful specimens from Parana, South 

 Brazil, collected by A. Robert. 



Ciccaba albitarsus (ScL). 



Syrnium albotarse, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 103 

 (nomen nudum) ; Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 52 (descr. obsc). 



Syrnium albitarse, Scl. Trans. Z. S. iv. p. 263, pi. ix. (1862 ; 

 descr. princeps) (Bogota, Colombia). 



This Owl was found in the Andes of Colombia and Vene- 

 zuela, and Mr. Hartert had examined Bogota specimens in 

 the British Museum and a fine series from Merida, collected 

 by Mr. Salomon Briceno Gabaldon. The differences of the 

 two forms were as follows : — 



Ciccaba hylophila. — Upper third or half of the toes 



