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Dr. Sclater exhibited a pair of the Black-faced Love- 

 bird (Agapornis nigrigenis) obtained by Mr. C. Wilde on 

 the Mashili River, N.W. Rhodesia, on the 17th of October, 

 1908 ( ? ), and the 26th of January, 1909 ((J), and made 

 the following remarks : — 



" This pretty little Love-bird, first described by my son, 

 Mr. W. L. Sclater, at the meeting of this Club on February 

 21st, 1906 (see Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 61), seems to be now 

 better known as a cage- bird than as a museum specimen, 

 so that I think it possible that the Members may like 

 to see a pair of skins of this species which I have lately 

 received from Mr. Haagner, of Pretoria. A consider- 

 able number of living specimens of this bird have b«en 

 recently obtained by Mr. Reiche (the well-known " Thier- 

 handler" of Alfeld) from a correspondent in German East 

 Africa. From this quarter several of our friends, the Avi- 

 culturists, have been supplied with pairs of this Love-bird, 

 and one of them, Mr. Reginald Phillipps, has happily 

 succeeded in inducing it to breed in captivity. Mr. Phillipps 

 has given us a good account of its nesting-habits in the 

 ' Avicultural Magazine ' (vol. vi. pp. 206, 329, and vii. p. 31) 

 and has described the plumage of both sexes. Mr. Astley, 

 who is also the fortunate owner of a pair (which I have 

 had the pleasure of inspecting), has likewise described the 

 bird in the same periodical (Av. Mag. vi. p. 317) and given 

 an excellent figure of it. 



" In the last number of the ' Journal of the South African 

 Ornithologists' Union' (vol. v. p. 16) Mr. Haagner also has 

 an article on this Love-bird, accompanied by a good figure 

 (pi. i. fig. 2). He tells us that the Trausvaal Museum has 

 a series of 23 skins of this species — 3 from the Caprivi- 

 corner of German South-west Africa, between the Chobi 

 and the Zambesi, and the others from the Barotsi Country 

 north of the Zambesi. 



" There are also seven examples of it living in the Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens at Pretoria, and the Zoological Gardens in the 

 Regent's Park have likewise specimens. Mr. F. E. Blaauw 

 informs me that he also is the owner of a pair of this 

 ornamental species." 



