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Total length 183 mm., wing 106, tail 48, culmen 23, 
tarsus 25. 
Hah. North Queensland (Cooktown, June 25th, 1899). 
The species had been named after its collector, Mr. E. 
Olive, who is known 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. He pointed out the 
mature characters of the species, which had been originally 
described from an immature specimen, hitherto unique, in 
the British Museum. 
Mr. Harry E. Withe rby exhibited a specimen of Liinosa 
lapponica in down, obtained out of a brood of four from a 
marsh near the Imandra Lake, in Russian Lapland, on the 
16th of July, 1899. 
Mr. Ernst Hartert showed some nesting-boxes for the 
encouragement of birds which breed in holes. The f ‘prac¬ 
tical” bird-protection/which was warmly advocated on the 
Continent by Freiherr von Berlepsch, aimed at furnishing 
new breeding-places for useful birds, natural food in hard 
winter-times, and cover and protection against their enemies. 
The feeding in winter-time was not so easy, and on this 
subject Berlepsch’s book might be read with advantage. The 
planting of thick bushes, especially those with thorns, and 
berry-bearing species which were liked by birds, instead of the 
foreign evergreens and shrubs which only a few birds really 
loved, was not within the means of every one, and could only 
be done by landowners who were interested in birds; but the 
putting up of nesting-boxes was practicable almost every¬ 
where, in gardens, parks, and woods, on a large or small scale. 
In Germany, nesting-boxes were a very old institution, but 
they had not met with general approval, because they had not 
hitherto been quite successful. Now, however, von Berlepsch 
had invented nesting-boxes like those exhibited, and they 
were a wonderful success. They were imitations of the holes 
