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red and some underlying greyish-mauve spots. It measures 

 30-8 by 25 mm. 



Dr. E. Hartert exhibited an example of a new species of 

 Dicamn, which he described as follows : — 



DlCiEUM NIGRILORE, n. Sp. 



<S ad. Crown from forehead to nape dark olive-yellow. 

 Lores, stripe under the eyes, and ear-coverts blackish. Back 

 sepia-brown with a faint olive tinge ; lower rump and upper 

 tail-coverts dark olive-yellow. Lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back, median and greater series with olive-yellow edges. 

 Primary-coverts uniform blackish-brown. Remiges very 

 dark brown, with the inner webs edged with white, except 

 at the tip ; inner secondaries bordered externally with olive- 

 yellow. Tail-feathers deep brown with narrow olive-yellowish 

 outer edges. Under-surface pale ashy grey indistinctly 

 striped with white ; throat and middle of abdomen whitish ; 

 flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts wax-yellow. Under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. Bill black, legs and feet 

 (in skin) slaty. Wing 56 to 59, tail about 28, bill 12 to 13, 

 tarsus 16 mm. 



? ad. Like the male, but perhaps a little smaller. 



Hab. Mount Apo, Southern Mindanao, 3000 feet above 

 the sea. 



Type cJ, No. W. 302. a. Mt. Apo, October 1903. Col- 

 lected by Mr. John Waters tradt. 



On behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, Dr. Sclater (at the request of Mr. A. North, 

 C.M.B.O.U.) exhibited a series of twenty-two specimens of 

 birds belonging chiefly to recently described species, on 

 which Mr. North was anxious to obtain the opinion of the 

 Members of the B.O.C. Amongst these were examples of : — 



(1) Rhipidura intermedia, North, Vict. Nat. xix. p. 101 

 (1802) ; id. Nests & Eggs Austr. B. p. 130 (1903). 

 From Cairns, N.E. Queensland (E. J. Cairn fy 

 R. Grant). 



