384 Bulletin of the Britifih Ornithologists' Club. 



It was a copy of one of the eggs formerly in the possession o£ 

 the late T, H. Potts, and purchased by the late Lord Garvagh 

 at Stevens^ Auction Rooms on May 24th, 1853, for £30. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe made some remarks on the interest- 

 ing collection of birds brought by Colonel Yerbury from the 

 neighbourhood of Aden, a full account of which will appear in 

 ' The Ibis.' Special attention was drawn to the specimens of 

 Argya and Myrmecocichla. The former had been alluded to 

 by Lieut. Barnes (Ibis, 1893, p. 180) as Argya, sp. inc., and 

 it was therefore interesting to find that it was the true 

 A. squamiceps (Cretzschm.), though this was to have been 

 expected. On comparing the Palestine bird usually called 

 A. squamiceps, it proved to belong to a different species, and 

 a mistake had been made in the ' Catalogue of Birds,' vol. vii. 

 p. 395, in uniting the two. The Palestine bird should be 

 kept distinct as Argya chalybea (Bp.). 



Another instance of a difference between Palestine and 

 Arabian forms was seen in the case of Myrmecocichla 

 melanura. Colonel Yerbury's specimens from Aden agreed 

 with others from Abyssinia and Somaliland ; but the Palestine 

 form, hitherto believed to be M. melamira, was distinct, and 

 Dr. Sharpe proposed to call it 



Myrmecocichla yerburyi, sp, n. 

 Similis M. melanur(B, sed pallide cinerea, gutture et pectore 



dilute cinereis, minime vinaceo lavatis distinguenda. 



Long. tot. 6 poll., culmen 055, alse 3-15, caudse 2-35, 



tarsi 0*8. 

 Hah. in Palestina. 



A communication from the Hon. Walter Rothschild 

 pointed out that the generic name of Drepanorhynchus , pro- 

 posed by Dr. Dubois for a new genus of FringillidcB , con- 

 taining some species hitherto referred to Spermophila {cf. 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vii. 1894, p. 400), was not admissible. 

 The generic name Drepanorhynchus had been already em- 

 ployed by Dr. Reichenow for a Sun-bird from the Kilima- 

 njaro district in East Africa, and Mr. Rothschild therefore 

 proposed to substitute the name Spermophilopsis (nom. 



