1900.] 



MB. G. A. BOULEN'GER ON THE GEN" PS XENOTILAPIA. 



Mr. Sclater remarked that the route from Lake Nyasa to 

 Mpeseni's country and Fort Jameson would be found described in 

 an article by Mr. E. I. Money and Dr. Ivellett Smith in the 

 'Geographical Journal' for 1S97 (vol. x. p. 146). 



Capt. Shelley had informed Mr. Sclater that examples of the 

 following 3 species had not previously been obtained in JNyasaland, 

 but it should be remarked that Tort Jameson itself, being over 

 the water-parting, was just outside the border of the B. O. A. 

 Protectorate : — 



1. Parus afer Grin. : Gadow, Cat. B. viii. p. 39. 



Not previously recorded from the north of the Zambesi. 



2. Smilorhis sowerbyi Sharpe, Ibis, 1898, p. 572, pi. xii. fig. 1. 

 Originally described from Mashunaland. 



3. Phalacrocorax lucidus (Licht.) : Grant, Oat. B. xxvi. p. 351. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. A. Boulenger pointing 

 out that an unfortunate mistake, for which he was in no way 

 responsible, had been made in printing the characters of rhe genus 

 Xenotilapia in part 4 of vol. xv. of the Society's Transactions, 

 lately issued. The characters of the genus Xenotilapia (page 92) 

 should stand as follows : — 



Xenotilapia, g. n. 



Body moderately elongate ; scales ctenoid ; three lateral lines. 

 Mouth small, very protractile; upper jaw with two series of minute 



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