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larger size, in having the forehead grey Avithout white tips 
to the frontal feathers, and with the superciliaries and sides 
of the face not conspicuously marked with white ; the 
feathers of the loAver neck and breast with a decided wash of 
oily greyish green and with slightly indicated bars of dull 
greyish, without white centres as in T. castanonota. “ Iris 
yellow ; feet yellow ; bill brown (dull greenish olive in 
skin). 
Total length 183 mm., wing 106, tail 48, culmen 23, 
tarsus 25. 
Hab. North Queensland (Cooktown, June 25th, 1899). 
The species was named after its collector, Mr. E. Olive, who 
is know'n in Australia as a careful and accurate field-naturalist. 
Mr. Rothschild also exhibited a specimen of Geocichla 
papuensis of Seebohm, which he had recently received from 
the Aroa River, British New Guinea. lie pointed out the 
mature characters of the species, wdiich was originally 
described from an immature specimen hitherto unique in 
the British Museum. 
Mr. Harry E. Witherby exhibited a specimen of Limosa 
lapponica in down, obtained out of a brood of four from a 
marsh near the Imandra Lake, in Russian Lapland, on the 
16th of Jul}', 1899. 
Mr. Ernst Hartert showed some nesting-boxes for the 
encouragement of birds which breed in holes. Mr. Hartert 
stated that he had very little faith in the customary methods 
of bird-protection, which consisted of praising and over- 
rating the usefulness of birds, and of advocating more and 
more stringent bird-protection laws. 
There w^as, how'ever, another kind of bird-protection, 
w'hich might be called practical protection. This origi- 
nated from the understanding that it was not generally the 
killing of certain birds that made many of our species become 
scarcer, but the progress of cultivation of the ground, the 
careful keeping of our gardens, modern forestry, and similar 
