MB. W. E. DE WINTON OlS^ CTKICTIS SELOUSI. [Jan. 15, 



First consignment (August 14th, 1900) :— 

 1 Indian Eoller {Coracias inclwa). 

 1 Bengal AYeaver-bird (Phceus bengcdensis) 6 ■ 

 1 Manyar Weaver-bird {Phceus manyar) S • 

 4 Black-throated Weaver-birds (Flocem afrir/nla), 2 d , 



•2 2- 

 Second consignment (September 21st. 1900):— 



•2 Western Yellow-winged Laughing-Thrushes (Trochah- 



ptertim nigriwentum) 6 2- , 



1 Rufous-chinned Laughing-Thrush (1 anthocinda rufi- 



gularis). 

 1 8]aty-headed Scimitar Babbler (Fomntorhinvs schis- 



ticeps). 



1 Black-throated Ouzel {Turdus atrigidarin) S • 



2 Tickell's Ouzels (Turdus unicolor). 



1 Spotted-wing (Psaroghssa spihjjtera). 



Third consignment (November 27th, 1900) :— 



4 j^ shy-crowned Finch-Larks (Pi/rrhnlauda grisea), 3 c? , 



1 2. 



2 Singing Bush-Larks {Mirafra canhllans) d $ . 



2 Slaty-headed Parrakeets {Pdlmrms schisticeps) 6 ? • 

 1 Burmese Slaty-headed Parrakeet {Palwrnisfinschi) 6 ■ 



1 Grolden-eyed Fruit-Pigeon {Carpophaga concinna). 



Fourth consignment (.January 1st, 1901). 



2 Blue-winged Sivas (Siva cyanoptera). 



1 Silvei'-eared Mesia (Mesia argentauris). 

 1 White-capped Eedstart (Rutmlla leucocephala). 

 1 Eufous-bellied Niltava (Niltava sundnra). 

 1 Burmese Roller (Coracias affivis). 



Mr. W. E. de Winton exhibited a specimen, of the large Grrey 

 Meerkat (Cynictis selousi de Winton), described in the ' Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History,' ser. 6, vol. xviii. 1896, p. 469, 

 hitherto known from a skull only, obtained near Bulawayo. 



The skin exhibited (see Plate L), together with a skull, had 

 been obtained by Mr. P. C. Reid on the west bank of the Linyanti 

 Eiver on the 5th July, 1899. The following description was 

 given : — • 



Size about half as large again as the Bay Meerkat (C. p>eni- 

 cillata) ; body-colour grizzled drab-grey ; hairs of the tail broadly 

 white-tipped ; both fore and hind feet black ; belly buff. The 

 grizzling of the head and body is much coarser tlian in the Bay 

 Meerkat, owing to the broader annulations on the hair, but the 

 pattern on the hairs of the tail is similar in both species. There is 

 an entire absence of rufous in the colouring of the Grey Meerkat, 

 the tips of the under-fur and the broad subbasal band of the 



