Ornithologists' Club. 193 



October number of 'The Ibis' for 1899 (pp. 584-587), 

 but in that paper the description of a fine new species of 

 Urocissa had been omitted. Mr. Grant now proposed to 

 describe it as 



Urocissa whiteheadi, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Head, back, fore-neck, and chest 

 dark earthy brown, darkest on the ear-coverts, and shading 

 into grey on the sides and flanks, and into yellowish buff on 

 the middle of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts ; 

 feathers of the crown rounded at the extremity and edged 

 with whitish brown ; rump greyish brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 black tipped with white; wings black, except the lesser and 

 median wing-coverts, which are white, save at the base ; tips 

 of the primary-quills, margins of terminal half of outer 

 webs of secondaries, and the tips of the greater wing-coverts 

 pure white; middle tail-feathers grey, widely tipped with 

 white, and with a sub-terminal black band, tlie outer feathers 

 similarly marked, but with the white tips increasing in size 

 and shaded with yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 clear yellowish white. Iris straw-colour j bill red, shading 

 into brownish yellow at the base; feet dark brown. Total 

 length about 180 inches, culmeu 1*9, wing 8*2, tail 9-4, 

 tarsus 1*95. 



Hub. Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan. 



Mr. Grant further described a new species of Thick-knee 

 from Southern Arabia, obtained during the recent expedition 

 undertaken by Mr. A. Blayney Percival and the late Mr. W. 

 Dodson : — 



CEdicnemus dodsoni, sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to CE. affinis (Riipp.), but 

 with the ground-colour of the interscapular region largely 

 mixed with greyish buff, while the deep black markings so 

 conspicuous in tlie latter species are reduced to shaft-stripes. 

 The greater and median wing-coverts are altogether greyer, 

 the chest and breast more heavily streaked with brownish 



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