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? raari simillima, sed minoi. Al. 53-51- mm., caud. 37-39, 

 rostr. 14. 



Hab. in Insula "Wetter" dicta. 



Mr. Heinrich Kiihn sent nine examples from the Island 

 of Wetter, north of Timor. 



Type, S ad., Wetter, 5 x. 1902, no. 5693, Kiihn coll. 



The species is named in honour of its discoverer. 



Mr. Rothschild made the following remarks about a 

 Pheasant which he had recently named : — " When I ex- 

 hibited specimens of Phasianus torquatus and some other 

 new species at the meeting of this Club in November 1901, 

 I made a statement that Pallas had given the name of 

 P. mongolians to the Siberian form of P. torquatus, and that 

 therefore that name, as applied to the large Mongolian 

 Pheasant, could not be upheld, and I re-named the latter 

 Phasianus brandti. I have since come to the conclusion 

 that Pallas used the term ' mongolicus' as an adjective and 

 therefore this name should after all be applied to Brandt's 

 Pheasant. This being the case, I am reluctantly compelled 

 to sink my name of P. brandti, and at the same time must 

 re-name the Siberian form of Phasianus torquatus. I have 

 much pleasure in naming it after its discoverer, Phasianus 

 torquatus pallasi, subsp. nov/' 



Mr. Rothschild likewise exhibited a specimen of a rare 

 Honey-eater, Stigmatops notabitis, Finsch, from Wetter 

 Island, hitherto represented by the unique type in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



Mr. E. Hartert read to the meeting a letter from the 

 Rev. Francis C. R. Jourdain, enclosing another letter from 

 Dr. J. H. Salter. It was agreed that both of these letters 

 should be published in full in the f Bulletin/ 



"At a meeting of the B. O. C. held on May 31, 1900, 

 a resolution was carried ' That any member of the B. O. U. 

 directly or indirectly responsible for the destruction of nest, 



eggs, young, or parent birds of Kite, should 



be visited with the severest censure of the Union/ 



" It is perhaps somewhat unfortunate that though this 



