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-f- TiGRioRNis, gen. n. 



Genus simile generi ' Tiyriosoma' dicto, sed tarso anteriore 



reticulato distingueiidum. 

 Typus est Tigtnoriiis leucolopha (Jard.) . 



-j-Heterocnus, geu. n. 

 Genus simile generi ' Tiyi'iosoma ' dicto, sed gutture medialiter 



plumoso distingiiendum. 

 Typus est Heterocnus cabanisi (Heine). 



-f^ TiGRIOSOMA BAHI.E, Sp. U. 



Similis T. lineato (Bodd.), sed peetore et abdomine brunneis 

 atque fulvo late fasciatis distinguendum. Long. tot. 

 24-0 poll., culm. 4-2, alse lO'S, caud» 4*2, tarsi 4-0. 



Hab. Baliia, Brazil. 



Dr. Sharpe exhibited, on behalf of Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison, 

 F.R.S., a pair of Himalayan Woodpeckers [Dendrocojms 

 hhnalayensis), shot by him in his garden at Murree, N.W. 

 Plimalayas, in September. The birds were killed in the act 

 of making holes in walnuts for the purpose of extracting the 

 kernel for food. Dr. Aitchison wrote that two walnut- 

 trees in his garden were infested by these Woodpeckers, 

 which destroyed a large number of walnuts, picking them off 

 the ground when they fell, and inserting them in crevices 

 and holes in the bark of trees, until they had managed to 

 hammer a hole through the shells. 



Dr. Sharpe also described a new species of Weaver-bird 

 from Eastern Africa, collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith. He 

 gave the following diagnosis of the species : — 



Ploceipasser donaldsoni, sp. n. 

 P. brunneus, frontis et verticis plumis brunneis, albo squa- 

 matiin marginatis : uropygio et supracaudalibus albis : 

 rectricibus albo terminatis : subtus isabellinus, facie 

 laterali guluque albis, fascia mystacali postica nigr^ : 

 peetore summo vix fusco striolato distinguendus. Long, 

 tot. Q-J poll., culm. 07, alae 3'8, caudse 2-3, tarsi 09. 



Dr. Sharpe also exhibited a specimen of the Red-throated 

 Pipit {Ajithus cervinus), which had been submitted to him 



