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Hab. Paramba, N.W. Ecuador, 3500 feet. 



Typus in Mus. Tring (Miketta Coll., no. 473). 



In the form of the bill and shortness of the tail this 

 species agrees with S. subcristata and S. munda, but the 

 pattern of coloration is more like that of Elainea cinerea, 

 Pelz. ( = Serpophaga albogrisea, Scl. & Salv.). From this 

 latter, however, it is very easily distinguished by its much 

 shorter tail and much shorter and differently-shaped bill. 



Mr. T. Parkin, on behalf of Major Sir Archibald Lamb, 

 Bart., who was also present as his guest, exhibited two nests 

 found at Beauport, near Battle, Sussex, about 1896. They 

 were joined to one another and placed side by side on a 

 plank in a wood-stack, whence they were cut out in exactly 

 the condition in which they were exhibited. One nest 

 contained eggs of the Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa grisula) , 

 the other eggs of the Common Blue Tit (Parus cceruleus). 

 Both nests appeared to have been built by the Flycatcher. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant described two new species — 

 a Flowerpecker (Pholidornis bedfordi) and a Swift (Cypselus 

 sladenice) — from Fernando Po, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



" The extraordinary ornithological results of Mr. Boyd 

 Alexander's visit to the island of Fernando Po, when no less 

 than thirty-five new species of birds were discovered (cf. Ibis, 

 1903, pp. 330-403, pis. vi. a-ix.), seemed to indicate that a 

 second zoological expedition might meet with further success, 

 or in any case procure additional examples of the many rare 

 forms discovered by Mr. Alexander. Thanks to the gene- 

 rosity of the Duke of Bedford and Mrs. Percy Sladen, and 

 the assistance of Mr. Walter Rothschild, the Trustees of the 

 Natural History Museum were able to send out Mr. E. Sei- 

 mund, one of their taxidermists, on this mission. He arrived 

 at Santa Isabel, on the north coast of Fernando Po, in the 

 third week of December 1903, and the first results of his 

 labours have recently arrived and include a hundred and 

 thirty-seven bird-skins, among which two species appear to 

 be neAv : — 



