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plate vi.). The eggs shown by Mr. Witherby were found 

 in a c scoop ' of ground lined with grass in the drier part of a 

 marsh near Shiraz. The nest and the eggs and the habits 

 of the birds greatly resembled those of the Lapwing 

 ( Vanellus vanellus) . 



Colonel Bingham described a new species of Suthora as 



SUTHORA THOMPSONI, n. Sp. 



? . Resembles S. davidiana, Slater, from Foh-kien, but is 

 distinctly smaller and differs in the points noted below. 

 Forehead, crown, sides of the head and nape chestnut, of 

 a much deeper colour than in S. davidiana and not extending 

 on to the upper back ; along the posterior margin of the 

 nape the chestnut colour gets somewhat paler ; back, rump 

 and wing-coverts clear, rather dark, ash-grey ; wings brown, 

 the quill-feathers, secondaries, and tertiaries with the outer 

 margins narrowly light chestnut ; upper tail-coverts and 

 the outer webs of the tail-feathers above chestnut, of 

 a lighter shade than the colour of the head ; inner 

 Avebs of the tail-feathers brown ; chin and throat uniform 

 deep black, entirely without the white spots so con- 

 spicuous in S. davidiana ; upper breast albescent, remainder 

 of the breast and flanks grey like the back ; abdomen, 

 lower tail-coverts, and tail beneath pale ochraceous : 

 bill (in the skin) yellow, (in the flesh) " fleshy pink ; irides 

 reddish brown; legs and feet fleshy yellow" (Craddock). 

 Length, ? 3*7-3 - 8 inches, wing 2*1, tail 1'45, bill from 

 gape 03, tarsus 0*65. 



Ilab. " Shot north-east of Kyatpyin village near the 

 Paunglaung stream in the Loilong State at 2500 feet, on 

 18th March, 1902" (Craddock). 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a specimen of Phasianus 

 hagenbecki, out of a number which had lately been offered 

 for sale in Leadenhall Market. 



Mr. T. Parkin exhibited some eggs of the Moorhen 

 ( Gallinula chloropus) which had been found in the nest 



