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Ornithologists 3 Club . 
At the moment nothing was known of its history, but parti¬ 
culars would shortly be forthcoming and would be contributed 
to the ‘Ibis/ This egg was undoubtedly the handsomest 
example of the e zoned 3 type in existence. Its discovery 
brought the number of known eggs of the Great Auk to 72. 
Mr. E. Lort Phillips exhibited several interesting species 
of birds obtained during his expedition to Somali Land in 
the spring of 1899, among them being four examples of 
Francolinus castaneicollis , Salvad., obtained on Mt. Wagga. 
The egg of Spreo superhus was obtained during the expe¬ 
dition, and proved to be perfectly blue, without any spots, 
Mr. Charles Hose, whose reappearance, after six years* 
absence in Borneo, was warmly greeted by the members of 
the Club, exhibited some rare birds obtained by him. 
Among them was a specimen of Botaurus stellaris, hitherto 
unrecorded from Borneo ; a pair of Pitta c&rulea with the 
nestling (showing that the species was indigenous to 
Northern Borneo) ; and examples of Baza borneensis and 
Spizaetus alboniger, affording an extraordinary instance of 
mimetic colouring in the plumage of the two species. 
No. LXVIII. (January 31st, 1900). 
The sixty-seventh Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
17th of January, 1900. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 
Thirty-six Members and fourteen guests were present. 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe described the following species 
from the Mackinder expedition to Mt. Kenya :— 
1. Hyphantornis camburni, sp. n. 
$ . Similis H. xanthopi , sed minor, subtus lsetius fiava: 
supercilio flavo paululum conspicuo* sed rostro multo 
