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presumed to be an egg of Dinornis ingens, had a large hole 

 in one side. 



The egg shown was found during the gold-dredging 

 operations in 1901 on the Molyneux River near Otago. 



Dr. E. Hartert exhibited examples of the following new 

 species and subspecies of birds, which he described as 



follows : — 



Calandrella minor nicolli, subsp. n. 



Adult. Differs from C. m. minor in being darker and 

 browner on the upper surface, and in having bolder and 

 somewhat blacker spots on the throat. The bill also 

 appears to be much darker, of a dark horn-grey, almost 

 blackish in the skin, while it is paler and of a more yellowish- 

 horn-grey in C. m. minor. In three male specimens the 

 wings vary from 81-87 mm. 



Hub. Delta, of the Nile. 



Type in the Tring Museum : <$ . No. 2G8. Damietta, 

 5.i.08. M. J. Nicoll coll. 



Obs. Mr. Heine most kindly sent me for examination the 

 type of Culandritis minor, Cab., and I find that it undoubtedly 

 belongs to the pale form which is found near Cairo and 

 in other parts of Egypt. 



Pitta schneideri, sp. n. 



Adult. Head and neck above rusty-rufous, shaded with 

 black on the crown, all the feathers being black at the base. 

 The rufous neck is separated from the blue back by a wide 

 black collar. The mantle, back, rump, tail, and scapulars 

 blue ; primaries dark brown ; secondaries olive, outwardly 

 edged with pale rust-colour ; primary-coverts and least upper 

 wing-coverts black, the latter with buff tips; the stripes 

 through the lores and from the eyes backwards to the sides 

 of the neck black ; sides of the head and neck, lores, portion 

 of the throat, chest, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish-brown j upper throat pale whitish-pink; under 

 wing-coverts blackish with buff tips. Bill (iu the skin) 

 dark brown : feet lmht brown. 



