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One pair in moult had been obtained on Mount Tahan 

 (5000-7000 feet) in North Pahang, Eastern Malay Penin- 

 sula, by Mr. Waterstradt's hunters in October 1901. 



Obs. Named in compliment to Mr. John Waterstradt, who 

 made a successful ascent of the great Mount Tahan. His 

 collection of birds is in Mr. Rothschild's museum at Tring. 



This Bullfinch stands quite by itself. Pyrrhula leucogenys 

 from Luzon resembles it in the white sides of the head and 

 the general brownish coloration, but it has the crown and 

 chin black, the former with blue-black edges to the feathers, 

 and it has also ochraceous-buff under tail-coverts. The bill of 

 Pyrrhula waterstradti is very broad and flattened on the top. 



Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo gave a most interesting 

 account of his recent explorations in the Atlas Mountains 

 and other parts of Morocco. Among the birds noticed were 

 Comatibis eremita, Ruticilla moussieri,Falco barbarus, Cypselus 

 koenigi, Fringillaria Sahara, &c. A full account of the birds 

 observed by Mr. Meade-Waldo would appear in the ' Ibis/ 



Mr. H. Munt exhibited eggs of the Sumatran Ground- 

 Cuckoo (Carpococcyx viridis) and of other interesting species. 



Mr. William Sclater exhibited two specimens of Coots 

 (Fulica) belonging to the South-African Museum, Cape 

 Town. The first of these, which had been obtained in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Durban by Mr. T. Butler, the 

 Museum Collector, in 1891, was very different from the 

 ordinary South-African Coot (Fulica cristata) and resembled 

 in every way one of the South- American species (Fulica leuco- 

 pyga), with which it had been carefully compared. There 

 was no reason to believe that there had been any mistake in 

 <3v<-' "Ik labelling this bird, so that its occurrence in South Africa was 

 a very curious phenomenon. 



The second specimen had been obtained in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Cape Town, and appeared to be a very 

 interesting partial albino of the ordinary African species 

 (Fulica cristala). The throat, neck, primary quills, and a 

 patch on the abdomen were pure white. 



