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Mr. E. Bidwell read a letter addressed to Mr. T. W. 

 Proger, of Cardiff, by Mr. R. W. Llewellyn, of Briton Ferry, 

 in which the writer described a visit to the Casquets Light- 

 house on May 14, 1902. During the early morning previous 

 to his arrival there had been a great rush of birds, and on 

 the rocks below the Lighthouse he had found from two to 

 three hundred dead birds, almost all of them being said to 

 consist of Red-breasted Flycatchers (Muscicapa parva). 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited some rare eggs obtained by 

 Mr. Zarudny on his last expedition to Transcapia and Persia, 

 viz. those of Passer yatei, Passer griseogularis, Passer ammo- 

 clendri, Bucanetes obsoletus, Saxicolapersica, Saxicola chryso- 

 pygia, Sylvia althea, Cuculus himalayensis (with eg^s of 

 Pratincola caprata), Galerita magna, Cinnyris brevirostris, 

 Butalis sibirica, Caprimulgus unwini, Burnesia lepida, Acro- 

 cephalus stentorens, and Ammomanesphoenicuroidt'S. This last 

 belonged to the form recently differentiated and described 

 by Mr. Hartert (Ball. B. O. C. xii. p. 43) under the name 

 Ammomanes cinctura zarudnii. 



Mr. Dresser also spoke of some of the interesting species 

 noticed by him during his recent visit to Hungary and Bosnia. 



Mr. Bonhotk gave an account of his recent expedition to 

 the Bahamas, and exhibited the nest of a Scarlet Flamingo 

 {Phcenicopterus ruber), made of mud. He also gave some 

 interesting details respecting the Shearwaters. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe remarked on the species of Chalco- 

 pelia, with respect to the observations of Freiherr von 

 Erlanger (Orn. MB. 1901, p. 183) that C. ajra and C. chalco- 

 spilus were distinct. Dr. Sharpe believed that there were 

 four species of the genus — one with green metallic wing- 

 spots (C. chalcospilus) and three with purplish or bluish 

 purple spots. Of these two appeared to be unnamed : — 



Chalcopelia abyssinica, n. sp. 

 C. pedibus in exuvie aurantiacis ; rostro nigricante, hand 

 aurantiaco terminato • notaso pallidiore, potius grises- 



