542 Ballet t a of the British 



" There is no white anywhere on the head, and tlie colonr 

 of the latter is of the same deep glossy purple as on the rest 

 of the upper surface, not glossed with oily brown as in the 

 three allied species. The first and second primaries are less 

 abruptly emarginate than in the allied forms. 



*'In the specimen described there is only one head-plume 

 on each side instead of three, and although Mr. Ernst Hartert 

 and I have both examined most carefully the feathers of the 

 head we have been unable to find traces of any more ; but 

 until a large series arrives, or we find a specimen with more of 

 these ornamental plumes, it cannot be definitely determined 

 that this is a good and real character of the species. Wing 

 150 mm., tail 115 mm., tarsus 38 mm., culmeu 34 mm. 



" Hab. Dutch New Guinea (Van llenesse van Duiven- 

 bode).^' 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited two rare birds from the 

 Ambernoh River, in Dutch New Guinea : Nasiterna bruijni, 

 one of the smallest of Parrots, and Chenurhamphas grayi, a 

 very rare Flycatcher, of which Wallace had obtained a single 

 specimen (the type) at Sorong. 



Dr. BowDLER Shahpe described three apparently new 

 species of birds obtained by Lord Delamere in British East 

 Africa : — 



SPIZOCOKYS ATHENSIS, Sp. U. 



J . S. conirostri affinis, sed valde diversa : supra alaudina, 

 baud arenicolor : rostro corneo : subtus isabelliuo-alba, 

 maculis prajpectoralibus nigris notata : plaga nigra ad 

 latera colli conspicua, sed subalaribus et primariis intus 

 cinerascentibus, illis obscure arenaceo marginatis prae- 

 cipue distinguenda. Long. tot. 5*5 poll., culm. U'55, 

 alae 3'5, caudae 2'0, tarsi 0'8. 

 Hab. Athi River, Nov. 14, 1899. 



A further interesting discovery was a second species of the 

 genus Pseudalcemon of Lort Phillips (Ibis, 1898, p. 400) : — 



PSEUDAL^MON DELAMEREI, Sp. n. 



Similis P. fremantlii et eodem modo figurata, sed grisescens 

 nee areuacea : corporc subtiis isabellino, hypochondriis 



