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Troodos, in Cyprus. Type no. 151, Troodos, 4.1.1904, in 

 the Tring Museum, collected by Mr. C. Glaszner. It is 

 named in honour of Miss Dorothy M. A. Bate, who made 

 interesting collections in Cyprus and wrote an article on 

 them in 'The Ibis' for 1903 (pp. 571-581), discussing the 

 peculiarities of the Cypriote Creepers. 



Mr. Hartert also exhibited Certhia familiaris familiaris, 

 C. familiaris britannica, C. br achy dactyl a brachydactyla, and 

 C. brachydactyla harterti. He pointed out that the last- 

 named, described by Mr. Hellmayr as a subspecies of Certhia 

 familiaris, was really a form of C. brachydactyla. 



Mr. E. Hartert further exhibited a new Dipper, which he 

 described as follows : — 



ClNCLUS CINCLUS SARBUS, n. Subsp. 



Nearest to Cinclus cinclus cinclus from Scandinavia, and 

 equally dark on the breast and abdomen, but the top of the 

 head and neck are paler, somewhat more mixed with greyish, 

 and not of so chocolate-brown a colour. The dimensions are 

 less : <$ } wing 90-94 mm., against 95-97 in C. c. cinclus. 



Hab. Sardinia (type, £ , 14.11.1902), Ilbano, Ogliastra, 

 Sardinia (no. 3939, Mus. Rothschild) . 



It is interesting to find that Sardinia is tenanted by a 

 resident dark-bellied form of the Dipper closely allied to 

 that found in Scandinavia, while the intermediate parts of 

 Central Europe are occupied by rufous-bellied forms. 



Mr. Hartert also informed the members of the Club that 

 Captain Polatzek had found the blue-backed Chaffinch (Frin- 

 gilla pahnce, Tristr.) of the Island of Palma also on Hierro ; 

 and Phylloscopus rufus fortunatus, which was formerly only 

 known from the Western Canary Islands, on Lanzarote. 



Mr. C. E. Hellmayr exhibited the types of five South- 

 American birds, which he described as follows : — 



^-Deconychura secunda, n. sp. 

 Dendrocincla sp. inc., Goodfellow, Ibis, 1902, p. 62. 

 ? ad. Similar to D. typica Cherrie, but differs in its 



