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be distinguished from the type form by the pale drabbish- 

 grej^-brown of its upper surface. 



(6) In the ' Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections ' for 

 March 1905 appears a " Description of a new Si/lvietta,^' by 

 Harry C. Oberholser (of the United States Biological Survey). 

 He apparently separates the Damaraland form of Sylvietta 

 Tufescens (Vieill.) (South African Crombec) on the strength 

 of a single specimen collected by Mr. C. J. Andersson in 

 Damaraland, and now in the collection of the United States 

 National Museum, which he says " differs so greatly from 

 the Cape Colony bird that it appears to represent a well- 

 marked subspecies, which, as it seems to be undescribed, 

 may be called Sylvietta rufescens ochrocara, subsp. nov." 



We need not give the full description of the bird. It 

 differs from the type in being " very much paler both 

 above and below, the lores and postocular stripe pale brown 

 instead of blackish ; the rump and upper tail-coverts more 

 tawny ; the lower surface not so uniform. Same size as 

 S. rufescens typ.'" 



Neither Andersson nor his Editor make any mention of a 

 difference in the Damaraland form. 



(7) In ' The Emu ' for January 1905 appears an important 

 article entitled " The Geographical Origin and subsequent 

 Development of the Land Birds of New Zealand," by Capt. 

 F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., who is the President of the Australian 

 Ornithologists' Union. 



(8) The January (1905) number of the 'Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie ' contains an obituary notice with a portrait of 

 the ornithologist Carlo " Freiherr " von Erlanaer, 



(9) In the same number of the same periodical appears 

 the concluding portion of the deceased^'s papers entitled 

 " Contributions to the Avifauna of North Africa." This 



