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Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of the rectrices shining me- 

 tallic violet; rump bright sulphur-yellow; throat, fore-neck, 

 and breast bright scarlet-carmine ; on the middle of the throat 

 a yellow line, which on the breast divides into smaller lines in- 

 tersecting the red. Abdomen ashy-grey, silvei-y on the sides ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; wings brown, edged 

 with olive ; inner webs of the rectrices blackish ; bill horny, pale 

 beneath ; tarsi brown. 



I add a short statement of the principal differences between 

 this new species and those to which it is most nearly allied. 



-J5J. miles [Cinnyris goalpariensis, Hoyle) and^. vigorsi have 

 the crown of the head and upper tail-coverts shining metallic 

 green, not violet. ^. siparaja {Nectarinia mysticalis, Temm.) 

 and ^. eupogon, Cab., want the yellow rump. JE. chalcopogon, 

 Reich., has the crown metallic green [stahlgrun) and the upper 

 tail-coverts steel-blue. And, lastly, an jEthoptyga (sp. non descr.), 

 from Menado, in M. Verreaux's collection, has the abdomen 

 almost black. I remain, &c., 



T. Salvadori. 



Feltwell Hall, Brandou, 

 September 1865. 



Sir, — Some months ago I bought of Mr. Baker, the bird- 

 stuffer at Cambridge, the skin of a Buzzard, which, on inquiry, 

 1 am informed was shot by J. M'Donald, Feb. 26, 1863, at 

 Kingussie, in Inverness-shire. Prom him it was purchased, 

 with a lot of Common Buzzards and other birds, by Mr. Mans- 

 field, the well-known dealer, who sold it to Mr. Baker. The 

 skin has been seen by Mr. J. H. Gurney and Mr. P. L. Sclater, 

 the latter of whom tells me that it is of a young Buteo lineatus, 

 a North American bird, which, I believe, has not hitherto been 

 killed in this country. 



I am, &c., 



Edw. Clough Newcome. 



Mr. Sclater sends us the following extract from a letter re- 

 ceived from Mr. C. J. Andersson, dated Damara-land, Jan. 4th, 

 1865:— 



" In looking over the notes made by you and the late Mr. 



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