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African element in the regions of the Upper Nile district 

 had already been demonstrated by Dr. Sharpe in his account 

 of Bohndorff^s collections in the Niam-niam country ( Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. jvii. pp. 419-441), and by Dr. Reichenow in his 

 treatise on the birds collected by Dr. Stuhlmann and Emiu 

 Pasha on the Victoria Nyanza (J. f. O. 1892, pp. 1-60). 

 Mr. Jackson had, however, been able to add several West- 

 African species to the Avifauna of Uganda, among them 

 being the following : — Campophaga phoenicea (N'tebi), Bias 

 musicus (N'tehi), Nicator chloris (Busoga, N'tebi), Malhnbus 

 rubricollis (N'tebi), Melocichla mentalis (N'tebi), Burnesia 

 leucopogon, &c. 



The following species were described by Dr. Sharpe as 

 new : — 



Dryodromas RuriDORSALis, u. sp. 

 D. similis D. smithii, sed pileo et notseo toto rufescente, illo 

 saturatiore distinguenda. Long. tot. 5*3 poll., alse 2*0. 

 Hah. River Tsavo, Sept. 20, 1894 [F. J. Jackson). 



Lamprotornis brevicaudus, n. sp. 

 L. similis L. porphijroptero, sed valde minor et cauda con- 



spicue breviore distinguenda. Long. tot. 11 "5 poll., 



alse 58. 

 Hab. Elgeyu {F. J. Jackson). 



The differences in the length of the tail between the 

 Abyssinian birds and those from British Central Africa were 

 so well marked that they seemed to constitute two distinct 

 forms. The tail of L. porphyropterus measured 7-7-7-S inches, 

 but that of L. brevicaudus only reached 5"05-5-9 inches. 

 {Cf. Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 240.) 



Mr. John Whitehead sent for exhibition a series of 

 specimens of the genus Dendrophila from the Philippine 

 Islands, and pointed out the following interesting facts : — 



The Philippine species oi Dendrophila could be divided into 

 two sections, viz. those with a white loral spot and a greenish 

 bill, and those with black lores and a red bill. To the last 



