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they were separable as a local race (Bull. B. O. C. xxix. 

 p. 75). Mr. Witherby had referred to this form as S. minor 

 Brehm, AUg. D. Naturh. Zeitung, 1857, p. 447, but Dr. C. E. 

 Hellmayr had recently very kindly pointed out to him that 

 this name was preoccupied by S. minor Bechstein in Latham's 

 Allg. Ubersicht der Vog. i. part 2, 1793, p. 533 footnote, 

 which was a synonym for the North- American S. pusilla. 

 It was therefore necessary to give a new name to the race of 

 Nuthatch inhabiting Spain and Portugal, and Mr. Witherby 

 proposed to call it 



SlTTA EUROPiEA HISPANIENSIS, nOIU. n. 



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 the 14th of May, 1913, at PAGANI'S RESTAURANT, 

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 Members of the Club intending to dine are requested to 

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 at the next Meeting of the Club are requested to 

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