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note, it may be at once distinguished from the Rock-Pipit, 

 even when on the wing, by the distinctly white appearance 

 of the under-parts. The call-note of the Water-Pipit differs 

 from that of the Rock-Pipit. It is less loud, rather harsher, 

 and uttered several times in quick succession. 



" All the Water-Pipits I have met with have been feeding 

 round salt and brackish pools, and I have clearly identified 

 two or three more examples this autumn without being able to 

 obtain them." 



The Hon. "Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., M.P., exhibited a 

 specimen of a new Raven from Bougainville Island, Solomon 

 Group, discovered by Mr. Albert S. Meek, and described it 

 as follows : — 



CORVUS MEEKI, n. Sp. 



c? ad. Bill entirely black and strongly curved, with strong 

 bristles covering the basal half of the upper mandible and. also 

 the base of the lower mandible. Head and neck black with 

 a metallic green gloss, becoming purplish on the forehead. 

 Rest of the upper surface black with dark purplish-blue 

 reflections ; underside duller ; all the feathers white at the 

 base. Shape of the wings and tail exactly as in Corvus wood- 

 fordi woodfordi from Gruadalcanar, and its very closely allied, 

 but slightly larger, subspecies, Corvus woodfordi vegetus, 

 Tristr., from Isabel Island. Wing 290-295, tail 140-145, 

 bill 69-70, metatarsus 54-58 mm. "Iris brown, bill and 

 feet black/' 



Type No. A 1719, S, Bougainville Island, 2.V.1904. 

 Collected by Mr. A. S. Meek. 



Two males were sent. 



This new species differs from C. ivoodfordi in having the 

 bill black, instead of milky white, the culmen narrower and 

 more ridged, and the bristles longer and covering the base 

 of the culmen, which is bare in C. woodfordi. The cutting- 

 edges of the upper mandible are less wide laterally, and do 

 not conspicuously overhang the under mandible. The iris 

 is brown instead of white. 



