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Type in the Munich Museum : No. 2033. # • Noanama, 

 Rio San Juan, Choco, Colombia, alt. 100 feet, 28. viii. 1908. 

 Collected by Mr. Mervyn Gr. Palmer. 



Obs. This new Puff-bird is not very nearly related to any 

 other member of the genus. In its proportions and style of 

 coloration (such as the rufescent cross-bands on the back, and 

 the buff axillaries, under wing-coverts, and quill-lining, &c.) 

 it is not unlike B. macrodactylus (Spix), from Upper 

 Amazonia, but it differs in having the cap ashy instead of 

 deep ferruginous, as well as in many other characters. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain and Mr. R. H. Read exhibited 

 a series of eggs of some 50 of the principal species of birds 

 breeding in Corsica. In many cases they were shown 

 together with the nests obtained in the years 1908 and 1909. 



Mr. Jourdain gave a short account of the ornithological 

 results of his two visits to the island. On the second 

 occasion he was joined by Mr. R. H. Read, who exhibited 

 all the nests shown. 



(i The following is a brief resume of previous work in the 

 district : — Wharton ('Ibis/ 1876, p. 17) recorded 113 species, 

 while Whitehead's classical paper in the same journal 

 (1885, p. 24) raised the number to 176. Giglioli published a 

 list in 1890 of 220 species, and short papers have also been 

 contributed to the ' Zoologist ' by Messrs. Backhouse and 

 Playne, while Mr. Sapsworth and Dr. Konig have both 

 visited the island and collected there. 



" The most interesting form is the Nuthatch, which has no 

 near ally in Europe, but is closely related to the American 

 Sitta canadensis. It was discovered by Whitehead, and 

 though specimens were obtained by Mr. Sapsworth and 

 Dr. Konig, no eggs had been taken since Whitehead's visit 

 till 1908, when Mr. Jourdain found several nests and 

 succeeded in taking three clutches, while in 1909 Messrs. 

 Jourdain and Read obtained eggs and also found young. 



" Among the more interesting results of these two visits 

 were the following : three species were recorded for the first 



