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being in fully adult plumage, which had been procured at 

 Rye and Pevensey in October and November last. 



Mr. Digby Pigott, on behalf of Lord Moreton, informed 

 the Meeting that during the week ending the 22nd November 

 last a Thrush had hatched out a young one, and a Starling 

 and a Wren had laid e°rsrs at Sarsden in Oxfordshire. He 

 further reported, on the authority of Mr. R. Norton, of 

 Downs House, Yalding, that in the same month there were 

 young Martins in a nest in Kent (Mr. Norton wrote that he 

 " had watched the mother feeding them for some minutes ") ; 

 also, on the authority of Mr. C. Stuart-Wortley, that a 

 Bittern had been seen by himself and others on a pond in 

 Hampshire in last October. 



Mr. J. G. Millais gave an account of his recent visit to 

 Newfoundland, and of the birds noticed by him on that 

 occasion. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant described a new species of Stork, of 

 the genus Dissura, which he proposed to name in honour of 

 Mr. William Morton, who had recently procured an adult 

 female bird on the Simunjan River, a tributary of the 

 Sadong River, in Southern Sarawak, Borneo : — 



Dissura mortoni, n. sp. 



Dissura episcopus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 294 

 (1898) [part. ; specimen n', Labuan*]. 



Adult male. Resembles D. episcopus in general appearance, 

 but differs in the following important points : — It is consi- 

 derably smaller, the outline of the culmen is slightly concave 

 and ends in a protuberance in front of the forehead ; the bill 

 is vermilion, the bare skin round the eye and on the throat 

 and neck orange or orange-yellow ; the legs and feet dull 

 vermilion; the basal half of the neck is clad in black 

 feathers, which extend up the downy white sides of the 

 upper-neck in two wedge-shaped patches; both the wing 



* The locality "Labuan " is an error; for the specimen, as stated by 

 Sir Hugh Low, was killed on the Mengalong River, Sarawak. 



