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Tunis. In his opinion these latter birds constituted a 

 recognizable race, for which he proposed the name of 



ClSTICOLA CISTICOLA MAURITANICA, n. Subsp. 



<$ . Similis C. cisticolce^ed major, obscurior, brunnescentior, 

 uropygio brunnescentiori-rufo, et hypochondriis rufes- 

 centi-brunneis, nee lsete cervinis, rostro quoque satu- 

 ratiore brunneo, distinguenda. Long. tot. circa 4'4 poll., 

 culm. 0*5, alas 2*1, caudse 1*65, tarsi 0'8. (Spec. typ. ex 

 Batna, Algeria, Nov. 5, 1902.) 



$ mari similis, vix minor. Long. tot. 4*2 poll., alse 2*05. 

 (El- Kef, Tunisia, Nov. 11, 1902.) 



Dr. Sclater, on behalf of Capt. Stanley Flower, exhibited 

 a photograph (taken in September last) of one of the three 

 specimens of the Shoe-bill (Baloeniceps rex) received from 

 the White Nile in 1902 by the Zoological Gardens at Gizeh 

 (cf. Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 67). All three birds were stated 

 to be still alive and well there. 



The next Meeting of the Club will be held on Wednesday, 

 the 18th of November, 1903, at 8.30, at the Restaurant 

 Erascati, 32 Oxford Street ; the Dinner at 7 p.m. 



(Signed) 

 P. L. Sclater, B. Bowdler Sharpe, W. E. de Winton, 

 Chairman. Editor. Sec. fy T?*eas. 



