52 Mr. \i. B. Sliarpe on tivo new 



ings on the wings and tail are the same as in the adults ; but 

 the colours of both arc browner. 



Besides the localities given by Count Salvadori, the Mu- 

 seum possesses examples from Penang [Wallace] and Bang- 

 kok [Conrad). 



69. NUMENIUS UROPYGIALIS. 



fl. "No. 7. Bruit, Nov. 30, 1873. Iris chocolate ; legs 

 lead-blue j bill brown. '^ 



70. BuTORiDES JAVANicA (Ilorsf.) ; Salvad. I.e. p. 351. 



a. "No. 172. 2 ad. Sibu, Nov. 13, 1873. Iris bright yel- 

 low ; legs light greenish ; bill dark greenish.^' 



b. ".9 juv. Sibu, Nov. 1873. Iris bright yellow ; legs yel- 

 lowish green; bill greenish black." 



c. " 6 juv. Sibu, Nov. 1874. Legs bright yellowish green, 

 darker on the tarsus and the toes.""^ 



71. Tringa albescexs, Temm. ; Sharpe & Dresser, B. Eur. 

 pt. xii. 



Actodromas albescens, Salvad. /. c. p. 323. 

 a, b. " No. 22. S ■ Matu beach, May 8, 1874. Iris brown." 

 These beautiful little Stints are in full summer-plumage, 

 and have the appearance of miniature Sanderlings. 



72. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.) ; Salvad. I.e. p. 326. 



a. " No. 58, $ . Sibu Island, Oct. 20, 1874. Iris choco- 

 late; legs pale lead-grey." 



VI. — Descriptions of tivo new Species of South-African Birds. 

 By K. BoAVDLER Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.. Senior As- 

 sistant, Zoological Department, British Museum. 



My friend Mr. F. A. Barratt has recently returned to Eng- 

 land with a small but interesting collection of birds, made in 

 a district of South Africa as yet uninvestigated by the ornitho- 

 logist. Having worked for some time in the Transvaal, he 

 proceeded to the Lydenberg district, and collected parti- 

 cularly in the neighbourhood of the Macamac goldfields 

 liere, on the western slope of the Drakcnberg mountains, he 



