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tips and outer webs blue-black. Under surface grey, towards 

 the chin and vent lighter, more whitish; sides of breast 

 faintly washed with rosy red. Under wing-coverts white, inner 

 edges of remiges whitish-brown. Wing 83, tail 83 mm. 



$ . Smaller ; back and under surface dull rufous-brown, 

 longer upper wing-coverts tinged with rufous. Wing 79- 

 80 mm. 



Juv. Feathers of crown blackish, edges with light greyish- 

 brown. 



Type : S ' Mt. Arizan, 4. xii. 1907. 



Hab. Mt. Arizan, Formosa. 



Obs. We have received one male, three females, and a 

 young male, obtained by Japanese collectors sent out by 

 Mr. Alan Owston. This is a peculiar form. The females 

 much resemble those of Pyrrhula erithacus, but the male has 

 no red in the plumage. From P. nipalensis nipalensis it 

 differs, besides other characters, in the extensively black chin, 

 from P. nipalensis waterstradti chiefly in the black chin and 

 the want of the large white patch on the sides of the head. 

 From all other forms of Pyrrhula it is still more widely 

 removed. 



Dr. E. Hartert exhibited two new African birds, which 

 he described as follows : — 



Andropadus ansorgei, sp. n. 



Similar to Andropadus gracilis, Cab., but the pileura more 

 olive-greyish, not so dark olive-brown as in A. gracilis, 

 the ear-coverts paler and washed with grey; the throat 

 distinctly grey, not greenish with a greyish tinge as in 

 A. gracilis, the chest, breast, and abdomen paler and dis- 

 tinctly tinged with grey; while these parts are darker and 

 more olive-green with a yellowish tinge in A. gracilis, the 

 sides of the breast and flanks are much paler, and the under 

 tail-coverts much lighter, less olive-greenish, and more 

 rufescent than in A. gracilis. "Iris dark brown. There is 

 a narrow circle of greyish feathers round the eye. Bill 

 greenish or brownish-black. Feet dark green, slaty, or 



