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on to the nest. There could, however, be no doubt about 

 the nature of this appendage, and it would be interesting 

 to get specimens in spirits for anatomical investigation. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe remarked that there was a specimen 

 in the British Museum showing this development. The in- 

 dividual in question was formerly in his own collection, and 

 w r as purchased by him in 1869 from the Maison Verreaux. 

 The peculiar penis had been pointed out to him in 1870 by 

 the late Jules Verreaux. 



Mr. W. Ruskin Butterfield exhibited a specimen of 

 Saxicola caierince, Whitaker, shot in Sussex. This is the 

 Western form of the Black-eared Chat (S. aurita, Temm.), 

 and although a more or less common breeding species in 

 Southern Europe, it was not known to have previously visited 

 the British Islands. 



The specimen, a male, had been shot by a man named 

 Williams, near Polegate, Sussex, on May 28th, 1902. It had 

 been received for preservation by Mr. George Bristow, of 

 St. Leonard's, and examined in the flesh by Mr. Butterfield. 



Mr. J. I. Whitaker made some remarks on the specimen 

 exhibited by Mr. Butterfield, and has forwarded the following 

 summary of his observations : — ' ' In the e Ibis ' for 1898, 

 p. 625, I wrote a short article pointing out the distinctness 

 of the Black-eared Chat found in North-west Africa and 

 South-west Europe from that occurring in the rest of 

 Southern Europe, in Asia Minor, and in North-east Africa, 

 and described the former as a new species under the name 

 of S. caterince. 



" The following is an extract of what I wrote on the sub- 

 ject, pointing out the differences of the two forms (vide 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 625) :— 



cc ' Temminck's description of S. aurita (Man. d'Orn. i. 

 1820, p. 241) is so vague that it might apply equally to 

 either the Eastern or the Western Black-eared Chat. Owing, 

 however, to the kindness of Dr. Otto Finsch, of the Bijks 

 Museum at Leiden, where Temminck's collection is pre- 



