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in neither case was the evidence beyond question. It was 

 therefore satisfactory that at length an authenticated 

 specimen had been produced. 



Mr. Ruskin Butterfield also mentioned that a pair of 

 Peregrine Falcons had nested and brought off their young 

 during the present year in the cliffs at Fairlight near Hastings. 

 Several local ornithologists had interested themselves in the 

 matter, and it was hoped that protection would be afforded 

 to the parent birds if they again selected the locality for 

 nesting purposes. 



Lieut. Boyd Alexander exhibited an adult female speci- 

 men of Glareola melanoptera obtained in Rye Harbour on the 

 18th of June, 1903. This was the first record of the species 

 in Sussex. The bird was shot by a man named Ransom, and 

 was brought to Mr. Bristow at St. Leonards, where it was 

 seen in the flesh by Mr. Ruskin Butterfield. Another 

 example, an adult male, was shot on Romney Marsh on the 

 17th of June by a man named Jones, and was now in the 

 collection of Mr. Fleetwood Ashburnham at Broomham Park, 

 Hastings. The last-named specimen was additional to the 

 one recorded in the ' Bulletin ' (vol. xiii. p. 78). 



Lieut. Alexander also described a new Flycatcher from 

 Fernando Po as 



Alseonax poensis, n. sp. 



Alseonax obscura (nee Sjostedt), Alex. Ibis, 1903, p. 383. 



Ad. Allied to A. obscura, but with the upper parts entirely 

 slaty greyish, with indistinct brownish centres to the feathers 

 of the crown; base of forehead, lores, and eye-ring pale 

 buff, spot in front of the eye black. Underparts pale buff, 

 strongly washed on the breast and sides of the body with 

 slaty greyish ; axillaries and under wing-coverts uniform 

 rufous buff. Total length 4*3 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2'51, 

 tail 1*63, tarsus 0*55. 



Hab. Bakaki and Moka, Fernando Po. 



This appeared to be an intermediate form between Alseonax 



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