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with a distinctly greenish-blue ground-colour and rich brown 

 markings of various shades. They were all from one locality 

 in Kent ; and. all were apparently the produce of the same 

 bird. 



Common Bunting (Emberisa miliaria). 



A series showing very beautiful types and rare varieties. 

 In one set four eggs were pure white and perfectly normal in 

 texture ; another set of four was purplish-white with pale 

 grey shell-markings; a third set of five resembled the eggs 

 of the Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) both in colour 

 and markings. 



Song-Thrush (Turdus musicus). 



A series of various types and some beautiful varieties, 

 including a set of three eggs from Reigate, Surrey, with pure 

 white ground and pale red spots (figured in Dresser, ' Eggs 

 of the Birds of Europe/ pts. v. & vi. pi. 8. fig. 4) ; a single 

 egg from Kent, with large brown blotches (fig. 3 on the 

 same plate) ; and a clutch of seven eggs. 



Mistle-Thrush [Turdus viscivorus), showing the two 

 distinct types and varieties, including a clutch of three eggs, 

 almost without markings, and a clutch of three resembling 

 one type of the Blackbird (Turdus meruld). 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, on behalf of Mr. G. L. Bates, 

 exhibited a male and female of a new species of Lobotus from 

 the interior of Cameroon in Western Africa. Mr. Bates 

 sent the following description of the species, and proposed 

 for it the name of 



Lobotus oriolinus, sp. n. 



Adult male. Head and throat black, with a greenish lustre; 

 back and wing-coverts yellowish-olive, becoming much 

 yellower on the rump and upper tail-coverts, and pure 

 yellow on the nape; underparts bright yellow, orange- 

 yellow on the breast ; quills and primary-coverts black, the 

 fourth or fifth quill longest ; primaries with whitish outer 

 margins for part of their length, the secondaries with yellow 



