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Long. tot. 8-0 poll., culra. 055, alse 6*0, caudje 4*0, 

 tarsi 0*7. 



Hab. Eyk, on the Howd plateau, Somaliland (J, Benett 

 Stanford) . 



Distinguished from C. nubicus (which it resembles in having 

 the white spot on the inner web of the first primary reaching 

 to the shaft) by its much more rufous colour, the back and 

 wings being spangled with large rufous spots at the end of 

 the feathers. The first four primaries and the two outer 

 tail-feathers have large white spots. 



The specimen had been shown to Dr. Reichenow, Mr. 

 Oscar Neumann, and Mr. Hartert, who all agreed that it 

 belonged to an undescribed species. 



Granatina hawkeri, sp. n. 



Similis G, ianthinogastri, sed ubique pallidior : pileo et in- 

 terscapulio cinnamomeo-rufis: dorso rufescenti-brunneo: 

 faciei colore ianthino minus extenso, et fascia angusta 

 frontali hand continua distinguenda. Long. tot. 4'8 

 poll., culm. 0*4, alae 22, caudee 2*4, tarsi 0*65. 



Hab. Bari (E. L. P.), Dabuloc {R. M. Hawker), Lahello 

 (G. r. A. Peel). 



The light cinnamon colour of the head and mantle distin- 

 guishes the Somali form of the Hyacinth-bellied Weaver- 

 Finch from the true G. ianthinog aster of Masailand, which 

 has the back dark brown, contrasting with the chestnut head. 

 The same light cinnamon colour pervades the throat and 

 neck, and the blue on the face is not so extended. 



The narrow frontal line of blue does not continue across 

 the base of the forehead. 



Mr. LoRT Phillips also exhibited the nest of Eurocephalus 

 rueppelli, described by him in the ' Ibis' for 1898 (p. 406). 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe sent the first sheets of a new 

 * Handlist of Birds,' of which the first volume would shortly 

 be published by the Trustees of the British Museum. In 

 its preparation Dr. Sliarpe had already been engaged for the 

 iast five vears, and he ventured to hope that ornithologists 

 of every co\intry would give him their assistance in endea- 



