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that, so far as at present known,, the young from New Guinea 
were always black, showed that we had to deal with at least 
two distinct races. These birds had been sent to Mr. Roth¬ 
schild by Mr. Herbert C. Robinson, of Liverpool, who wished 
them to be exhibited to the Club. 
Mr. H. J. Pearson exhibited, on behalf of Mr. P. Musters, 
a pair of Lesser White-fronted Geese ( Anser erythropus ), 
with the eggs, taken by the latter gentleman in the north of 
Norway. 
Mr. P. Crowley exhibited some photographs of interesting 
eggs from his collection. 
The remainder of the evening was devoted to an exhibition 
of lantern-slides of birds and nests. 
No. LXIX. (February 28th, 1900). 
The sixty-eighth Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
21st of February, 1900. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 
Thirty-three Members and six guests were present. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited an example of a 
new species of Hemipode from North Queensland, sent to 
him by Mr. Herbert C. Robinson, who had described it as 
follows :— 
Turnix olivii, sp. n. 
$ . Most nearly allied to T. castanonota (Gould) $ and 
resembling it in general coloration, but differing in its much 
larger size, in having the forehead grey without white tips 
to the frontal feathers, and with the superciliaries and sides 
of the face not conspicuously marked with white; the 
feathers of the lower 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. a Iris 
yellow; feet yellow; bill brown ” (dull greenish olive in 
skin). 
