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A letter was read from Dr. Hartert stating that he had 

 been asked by the Executive Committee of the International 

 Ornithologists' Congress to invite all the Members of the 

 B. O. IT. to attend the Meeting at Berlin, which would 

 commence on Monday, May the 30th, and to express the 

 hope of the Executive Committee that many of them would 

 be able to come. 



At the conclusion of the conjoint dinner of the B. O. U. 

 and B. 0. C, the Chairman proposed the health of His 

 Majesty King George V., and that of " Absent Ibises/' as 

 is customary at the Annual Dinner. 



Mr. H. C. Robinson exhibited examples of six species of 

 birds from the Malay Peninsula and made the following 

 remarks : — 



Cyornis malayensis, Robinson. 



This species, described from the mountains of the Malay 

 Peninsula, is probably identical with Niltava sumatrana, 

 Salvad., from Mt. 'Singalang, W. Sumatra, of which the 

 types still remain unique. [Cf. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. 

 p. 201 (1879).] 



Gerygone modiglianii, Salvad. 



This species was described by Salvadori from specimens 

 collected in Central Sumatra. It was re-described as G. pec- 

 toralis by Davison from a specimen obtained on the coast of 

 Pahang, and was also secured on Gunong Tahan, in the 

 same State, by Waterstradt, while subsequently it was 

 obtained in Trang by Dr. W. L. Abbott. The specimen 

 exhibited is one of two which were obtained in the 

 gardens of the Perak Museum at Taiping after several 

 years' search. 



Turdinus loricatus (S. Miill.). 



This handsome Timeline bird was one of Salomon Muller's 

 discoveries in the mountains of Sumatra. It was re- 

 described as Turdinus marmoratus by Wardlaw - Ramsay, 

 from specimens obtained by Carl Bock. It is now known 

 to be fairly numerous in the mountains of the Peninsula. 



