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Before commencing the business of the evening the 

 Chairman took the opportunity of personally thanking the 

 Members of the Club for their kind congratulations which 

 he had received on attaining his eightieth birthday. These 

 had been conveyed to him in a letter written by the 

 Secretary, which had been published, together with his reply, 

 in the last number of the ' Bulletin ' (page 18). 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited an example of a 

 new Sunbird, which he described as follows : — 



iETHOPYGA seheri^e owstoni, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Forehead and crown metallic-green (or pur- 

 plish-bronze-green when turned from the light) ; nape dull 

 olive-green ; back dark red, rump bright yellow ; upper 

 tail-coverts metallic-green (or dull purplish when turned 

 from the light); rectrices purplish-blue, mostly margined with 

 green. Throat crimson, streaks on the sides of the throat 

 shining purplish-blue ; abdomen olive-grey. 

 - Wing 55'5-59*5; tail 51-55 mm. 



Hob. Nauchau Island, off Kwangtung Peninsula, S. China. 



Type in the Tring Museum : No. 10. Nauchau, 6. i. 1907. 

 15 males received. 



Obs. This new form differs from jffi. seheria seherice and 

 other Himalayan and Assam forms (if these latter are 

 separable) in the colour of the abdomen and shape of the tail, 

 the latter being less pointed and shorter. From JE. s. cava, 

 Hume, it differs in having the throat darker crimson, with 

 blackish (instead of yellowish) bases to the feathers, the nape 

 brown (instead of red), and the middle rectrices more 

 elongated. 



Dr. E. Hartert exhibited examples of a new subspecies 

 of Flycatcher, which he proposed to call 



Tarsiger indicits formosanus, subsp. n. 

 Adult male. Forehead, crown, and hind-neck yellowish- 

 olive ; back and rump bluish-slate-colour ; upper tail-coverts 



