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Ornithologists’ Club. 
“ P.palliceps is certainly very closely allied toP. celebensis , 
and the distinctness of P. propinqua from P. erythrogastra is 
very doubtful.'” 
Mr. Rothschild also sent for exhibition a specimen of an 
Oyster-catcher, which he proposed to call:— 
“ H^ematopus reischeki, sp. n. 
“ $ ad. Differs from H. longirostris Vieill. and H. fins chi 
Martens, at first sight, in having the lower back and rump 
black and not white, and the upper tail-coverts being mixed 
black and white, not white. The bill is much longer than in 
a series of twenty-three specimens of H. longirostris in the 
Tring Museum, and appears stouter than in New Zealand 
specimens. 
“ Culmen 102 mm., wing 270, tarsus 60. 
“H. longirostris , £ ad, Culmen 75-85 mm., wing 245-255, 
tarsus 55. 
“ The type was shot in June 1885 at Kaiparu, New Zealand, 
by A. Reiscliek. 
“H.finschi of Martens (Orn.Monatsb. 1897, p. 190) appears 
from the description to agree with two birds collected by 
Baron von Hiigel at Freshwater Creek, Canterbury, New 
Zealand, and another from Kaipoi, Canterbury. These birds, 
however, vary among themselves in the amount of white on 
the quills, which is the distinction given by Herr Martens ; 
and this variation in the amount of white leads me to con¬ 
sider that his H. finschi and the three birds from Baron von 
Hiigel are only aberrations of H. longirostris.” 
Mr. Ernst Hartert recorded the occurrence of a specimen 
of Grallina picata on the little island of Koer in the Key 
group. 
Mr. Hartert also exhibited the types of three new birds 
collected near Gambaga, Gold Coast Colony, which he 
named and characterized as follows :— 
COSSYPHA GIFFARDI, Sp. 11. 
Similar to C. albicapilla from Senegambia, but differing in 
