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The Treasurer made his annual statement as to the 

 financial affairs of the Club, which were shown to be in a 

 satisfactory state. Mr. CD. Borrer had duly audited the 

 accounts and certified them to be correct. 



Mr. C. B. Rickett exhibited a pale cinnamon-and-whitish 

 variety of the East Siberian Snipe (Gallinayo megala) from 

 Foochow. 



On behalf of Mr. J. D. La Touche, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 exhibited and described a new species of Reed-Warbler 

 which Mr. La Touche proposed to call : — 



ACROCEPHALUS TANGORUM, Sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Closely allied to A. agricola (Jerd.), 

 which it resembles in all essential characters, such as the 

 shape of the wing and the small size of the bastard-primary, 

 but it differs from that species in having a dark blackish 

 band above the pale superciliary stripe, and the general 

 colour of the upperparts darker and browner. In all the 

 specimens examiued (twelve in number), which had been 

 killed in August and September, the underparts from the 

 throat downwards are very distinctly washed with bright 

 rufous-buff. 



Iris grey-brown ; upper mandible black, lower mandible 

 pinkish or yellowish flesh-colour ; mouth yellow ; legs 

 plumbeous, soles greenish-yellow. 



Total length about 127 mm. ; wing 53; tail 51 ; tarsus 22. 



Hob. China. 



Type <$, Chin-wang-tao, N.E. Chihli, 1. ix. 12. J. D. 

 La Touche coll. 



Obs. This Reed-Warbler is very common in the small 

 millet (Panicum italicum, P. miliacewn, and P. cms galli) 

 from the middle of August till about the 10th of September, 

 but leaves shortly after the latter date. It is a silent bird 

 at this season and hunts for its insect-prey about the stems 

 of the millet, occasionally working its way to the heads of 

 the stalks, where in the early morning it often remains a 

 few seconds before flitting down to the next millet plant. 

 It would seem to moult towards the end of August. 



