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recently presented to the Natural History Museum by 

 Messrs. Tait and Jamieson (cf. Bull. B. O. C. xxxi. pp. 58- 

 61), he had unfortunately overlooked the fact that a paper 

 describing- three new species from that island had already 

 been published by Mr. A. J. North in the 'Records of the 

 Australian Museum,' vii. pp. 29-31 (1908). He was in- 

 debted to Mr. Charles W. Richmond, of the United States 

 National Museum, Washington., for very kindly calling his 

 attention to this paper. The name of the new species of 

 Parroquet, Calliptilus (?) stepheni North, had, however, been 

 accidently omitted from the systematic portion of the 

 ' Zoological Record ' for 1908; and it had also been over- 

 looked by Count Salvadori in Wytsman's 1 Genera Avium,' 

 Family Loriidse (1910). Thus the description of this species 

 had been lost sight of. The Acrocephalus, which was the 

 next bird examined, had not been previously recorded, so 

 afforded no reference to Mr. North's paper. The Rail and 

 the Pigeon had both been described as new species by 

 Mr. North, and were duly mentioned in the ' Record' for 

 1908, but had been missed. 



Thus Vini hendersoni became a synonym of Calliptilus (?) 

 stepheni North, and the species should stand as 



Vini stepheni (North). 



Porzana murrayi became a synonym of 



PORZANA ATRA North. 



The Fruit-Pigeon described as a new species by Mr. North 

 under the name of Ptilopus insularis was almost certainly 

 synonymous with P. coralensis Peale, but this could not be 

 definitely decided until the birds from Henderson Island 

 had been compared with typical specimens of P. coralensis, 

 which Mr. Richmond had kindly offered to forward for 

 comparison. 



Mr. Witherby wished to add the following note : — At 

 the meeting held in February 1912 he had exhibited some 

 Nuthatches from Spain and Portugal, and had shown that 



