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to refer Paramythia to the neighbourhood of Calornis, which, 

 however, had very big feet and a scutellated tarsus. In ap- 

 pearance there was much which made Paramythia resemble 

 a Cuckoo-Shrike, and one genus of Campopharjida, viz. 

 CamjmcJuera, suggested a sort of relationship, as it had also 

 the sheath of the tarsus entire ; but, on the other hand, there 

 were no spiny shafts to the feathers of the rump in Paramy- 

 thia, so that the latter could never be called a Campophagine 

 bird. The skull, too, of Graucalus was somewhat of a 

 Laniine type, with the spinous process of the hinder part of 

 the palatine bones developed on the inner posterior angle, 

 though this process appeared to be very broad and blunt in 

 Graucalus, 



Dr. Sharpe exhibited a specimen of Chernel's Wood-Lark 

 [Lullula cherneli), which had been sent to him for examina- 

 tion by Mr. Georg von Almasy, who had written a paper on 

 the form called Alauda arborea cherneli by Prazak, in 

 ' Aquila^ (vol. iii. p. 209). The characters of this supposed 

 race of Lullula arborea were the paler coloration of the upper 

 parts, with less admixture of rufous, the white eyebrow, chin, 

 breast, and abdomen, the whiter edgings to the primaries, 

 upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and the whiter spots on 

 the tail-feathers. The bill was also said to be longer. 



Specimens agreeing with the Hungarian example of 

 L. cherneli sent by Mr. von Almasy were in the British 

 Museum from the following localities : — Gozna, Taurus, 

 Jan. 1 (C G. Danforcl) ; Anascha, Taurus, March 18, 

 April 7 (C. G. D.) ; Alamut, Anatolia, Feb. (C. G. D.) • 

 Seville, Spain, Feb. 20 {H. Saunders) ; Gibraltar, April 21 

 (L. H. Irby) ; Tangiers, June [S. G. Reid). 



Dr. Sharpe drew attention to the fact that these pale- 

 coloured specimens had nearly all been shot in spring and 

 summer, when the plumage is rather bleached and worn, and 

 that the colour of the specimens killed in other parts of 

 Europe in autumn and winter was certainly darker, but that it 

 was impossible to distinguish a male killed in July in Southern 

 Norway from the series of L. cherneli. Dr. Sharpe was 



