] 91 Bvlletin of the British 



black, and the middle pair of tail-feathers as well as the o\iter 

 webs of the two following i)airs are mostly grey with indistinet 

 blackish vermiculations and cross-bars. Iris lemon-yellow ; 

 bill lemon-yellow, black at the tip ; legs lemon-yellow. 

 Total length abont 14--5 inches, culmen from feathers on 

 forehead to tip 1- f, wing 86, tail 1-9. tarsns .S'f. 

 Hab. Lahej, S. Arabia. 



Mr. Grant further exhibited the types of the 11 new 

 species discovered by Mr. TI. Weld-Blundell and Lord Lovat 

 during their recent expedition through Southern Abyssinia. 



Mr. Weld-Bhuidell and Lord Lovat had described the new 

 species as follows : — 



1. OrIOLUS MENELlKIj Sp. n. 



Adult. Most nearly allied to 0. monachus, Gm., from which 

 it may be at once distinguished by having the bill jet-black ; 

 the secondary wing-coverts and outer row of median coverts 

 margined Avith yellow ; and the third, fourth, and fifth pairs 

 of tail-feathers with a strongly marked black sub-terminal 

 band. " Iris brown ; bill black ; legs slate." Total length 

 about lO'O inches, culmen 1*1, wing 5"(>, tail 4-0, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Burka, Abyssinia: 6th January, 1899. 



2. LUSCINIOLA ABYSSINICA, Sp. U. 



Adult male. Allied to L. thorucica (Blyth) and L. man- 

 dellii (Brooks), but having the upper parts of a darker and 

 richer brown tinged with red on the lower back and rump ; the 

 buff-coloured chest is separated from the white of the throat 

 by a fairly well-marked band of blackish spots ; the sides of 

 the body and flanks are dull rusty brown, and the under tail- 

 coverts uniform dull rust-colour. First primary two-thirds 

 the length of the second, which is about equal to the tenth ; 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth sub-equal and longest. Iris brown ; 

 upper mandible and extremity of lower blackish horn, rest 

 of under mandible whitish ; legs light horn-colour. Total 

 length about 6'0 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 2*1, tail 2'4, 

 tarsus 0"8. 



Hab. Lake Chereher, Abyssinia : 12th January, 1899. 



