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Another interesting bird proeured by Mr. Bates was a 
white-spotted Crake, winch did not seem to be quite the 
same as Canir alius oculeus of the Gold Coast. It was identical, 
however, with the bird from the Cameroons, and Dr. Sharpe 
had already referred (Cat. B. xxiii. p. 73) to the differences 
exhibited by the birds of the latter country. He therefore 
proposed to describe the Crake from the French Congo and 
the Cameroons as 
CaNIKALLUS I3ATESI, sp. n. 
Ad. Similis C. oculeo, sed saturatior, dorso saturate olivas- 
centi-briinneo, nec virescenti-olivaceo : pileo sordid^ 
hrunneo, nec rufescenti-brunneo : fronte et facie laterali, 
sicut in C. oculeo, cinereis, regione auriculari quoque 
cinereo. Long. tot. 110 poll., culm. L30, alse 6‘3, caudse 
2' 4, tarsi L95. 
Among other interesting birds obtained on the Bio Benito 
on the same occasion were examples of Bubulcus lucidus and 
Calopelia brehmeri. 
Dr. SuAUPE likewise exhibited a specimen of- a Goshawk 
from British Guiana, from the collection of Mr. F. V. 
McConnell. Feeling sure that it was Astur jardinii of 
Gurney (Ibis, 1887, p. 96, pi. iii.), Dr. Sharpe had sent the 
specimen to i\Tr. James Reeve, the Director of the Castle 
Museum at Norwich, for comparison with the type and unique 
example of the species in that museum. Mr. Reeve stated 
that the Guiana example was identical with the type of 
A. jardinii, and therefore the habitat of the species, previously 
unknown, was now identified as Guiana. 
Mr. Ogilvie Gk-'^nt, on behalf of Mr. C. B. Rickett, 
exhibited a very distinct new species of Scops Owl, for which 
Mr. Rickett proposed the name of 
Scops latouchi, sp. n. 
Adidt male. This species belongs to the yellow-billed group 
f of the genus Scops, and is apparently most nearly allied to 
. C S. icterorli!/ 7icha, ^ he]\ey, from the Gold Coast, and more 
^ ‘ distantly related to S. rufescens (Ilorsf.), from Malacca and 
the Sunda Islands. The pale frontal band is, however, less 
