444 Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay^s 



33. Phlogcenas johann^, Sclater, 

 One female in the collection. 



Iris and beak black ; feet dark plum-colour. Food berries 

 and seeds. 



33. LiMosA BAUERi, Naum. 

 Limosa nova- zeal andice, G. E. Gray. 



I may add to these notes that in Lt. Richards's collection 

 from Havannah Harbour, Vate, New Hebrides, is a Zos- 

 terops closely allied to Z. griseonota, G. R. Gray, from New 

 Caledonia, which I propose to name 



ZOSTEROPS VATENSIS, Sp. nOV. 



^ Z. griseonotce aflGnis, sed robustior, rostro fortissimo, thoraco 

 et collo flavis, abdomine et crisso cinereo-albis. Long, 

 tot. 5*4, alee 2*55, caudse 2*2. 

 ? mari similis. 



This species may be discriminated from Z. griseonota by its 

 very strong bill, the much greater extent of yellow on the 

 throat and neck, and the absence of yellow on the lower 

 tail-coverts. 



XXXIX. — Ornithological Notes from Afghanistan. — No. I. 

 By Lieutenant R. G. Wardl aw- Ramsay, 67th Regiment, 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



My regiment having been ordered to reinforce the division 

 under General Roberts, I have now an opportunity, for which 

 I formerly hardly dared to hope, of studying the ornithology 

 of a country comparatively speaking so little known as 

 Afghanistan. 



During my stay in these parts I propose to forward, from 

 time to time, in hopes that they may be of some interest to 

 readers of ' The Ibis,' notes on the birds observed. As I have 

 no books with me, Jerdon's ' Birds of India ' excepted, I have 

 asked Colonel Godwin-Austen to be good enough to correct 

 any errors in nomenclature that may occur in my manuscript, 

 and also to determine such specimens as I fail to identify 



