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Mr. Bead also remarked that lie had lately examined a nest 

 -with three newly hatched young of the Tawny Owl, but that 

 on looking at it five days later two of the young had dis- 

 appeared and only the head of the third remained in the 

 nest. He thought it probable that the old birds had removed 

 the two young elsewhere, and eaten the third, as he was 

 certain no human being had touched them. 



Mr. Trevor-Battye said he knew of a case which seemed 

 to prove the fact that Owls do move their young. A Short- 

 eared Owl's nest contained two young, but a short time 

 afterwards one was found near the nest, the other on the 

 other side of the common about 200 yards away. 



Mr. W. L. S. Loat exhibited a clutch of white eggs of the 

 Hedge-Sparrow {Accentor modularis) , among which a Cuckoo 

 had placed an egg. The nest had been found by Mr. Griffin 

 at Lamberhurst, Kent, on the 30th May, 1895, aud had since 

 that date been in the possession of the exhibitor. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant described a new species of 

 Shrike collected by Mr. G. W. Bury in South Arabia : — 



Lanius arabicus, n. sp. 



Adult male and female. Most nearly allied to L. algeriensis, 

 Lesson, but may be at once distinguished by having the chin 

 and throat grey like the breast instead of white. 



Total length about 8-7 inches ; wing 40-4*2 ; tail 4-0-4'25 ; 

 tarsus 1*2. 



Hab. Amiri District, South Arabia. 



A very large series collected by Mr. G. W. Bury in 

 the Amiri District, to the east of the Yemen frontier, shows 

 practically no variation. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also described a new species of W'eka 

 Bail from Stewart Island, New Zealand : — 



OCYDROMUS SCOTTI, n. Sp. 



Adult male (type of the species) . Most nearly allied to 

 0. earli, G. R. Gray, but may be at once distinguished by its 

 much smaller size, and by having the general colour of the 



