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followed by a broad bright scarlet pectoral band^ the feathers 

 of which are partially barred with steel-blue; remainder of 

 the underparts blackish brown. Bill and legs black ; iris 

 dark brown. Total length 4'65 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 2*5, 

 tail V7 , tarsus 0*65. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to that of C. mariquensis, 

 but more yellow and less mottled with dusky on the under- 

 parts. Total length 4-56 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 2*4, tail 

 \'7, tarsus 65. 



Obs. This species is nearly allied to C. hifasciatm, which 

 it resembles in size, but differs in having the bastard primary 

 smaller and more pointed : in this character it resembles 

 C. mariquensis. 



The most marked specific characters of C. shelleyi are 

 the sealing-wax red pectoral band, which is similar to that 

 of C erythrocerca, and the blackish-brown breast, which 

 resembles that of C. bouvieri; the golden gloss on the 

 metallic upper parts is also far less than in C mariquensis. 

 The position of this new species appears to be intermediate 

 between C. erythrocerca and C. mariquensis. \_Cf. supra, 

 p. 556.] 



Mr. Ogilvie Grant exhibited an example of a new species 

 of Rough- winged Swallow collected by Mr. W. Blayney 

 Percival at Ruo, British Central Africa. Mr. Grant pro- 

 posed to call it : — 



PSALIDOPROCNE PERCIVALI, Sp. n. 



Allied to P. antinori, Salvad., from Shoa, but with the 

 general colour of the plumage black glossed with dark green, 

 instead of sooty black with a dull bronze gloss. Total length 

 5"25 inches, wing 4*1, tail 3'4, tarsus 0*38. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited the original 

 drawings for the plates in his forthcoming " Monograph of 

 the Genus Casuarius " (to be published in the Zoological 

 Society's 'Transactions" ), and also the type of Casuar'ius 

 lorice, Rothsch., and a young bird of the same species. He 

 acknowledged 8 distinct species of Casuarius, and, counting 



