468 Mr. H. Saunders on'Ornithology in 
e\ Colours otherwise much as in E. hammondi, and 
varying between the same or even greater ex¬ 
tremes, but averaging somewhat greyer, with 
paler (often distinctly whitish) throat. Male : 
Wing 2-70-2*95 (2-83) inches, tail 2-55-2-80 
(2*67), culmen 0'62-0-69 (0'65), width of hill 
at base 0-24-0-27 (0-26), tarsus 0-71-0-77 (0-74). 
Female : Wing 2*55-2-75 (2-64), tail 2-50-2-65 
(2-52).— Hab. Western U. S., south, in winter, 
to Southern Mexico . E. obscurus. 
c 2 . Deep brownish olive above, the wing-bands vary¬ 
ing from olive to pale olive-greyish ; lower parts 
dull yellow, shaded across breast with olive- 
brown. Wing 2-92-3-00 inches, tail 2’65-2-75, 
culmen 0-60, width of bill at base 0-22-0-25, 
tarsus (one specimen only) 0*68.— Hab. Southern 
Mexico (City of Mexico, Orizaba, &c.). E. fidvipectus. 
XLIY .—Ornithology in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 
By Howard Saunders. 
It was hardly to be expected that Ornithology would he so 
well represented in this fourth Exhibition as it was in the 
first, when the collections made on the cruise of the f Vega/ 
and those from the United States and Australia, formed such 
important features. India, indeed, might well he excused 
from sending anything, in view of the unrivalled Hume Col¬ 
lection lately presented to the British Museum; and several 
of our larger Colonies might consider that after what they 
had already done, anything further would be a vain repe¬ 
tition. Such, however, has not been the assumption, and 
consequently a display has been made in this department 
which has proved even more attractive to the public than were 
the exhibits on the former occasion, although the present 
series is necessarily somewhat inferior in scientific value. 
The mounted birds in the Kuch-Behar tiger-hunting and 
jungle scene, daily visited by crowds of visitors, call for no 
special remark, the species being representative ones and 
consequently well-known. Mr. E. C. Buck exhibits three large 
cases of Indian Game Birds; and, hard by, the magnificent 
