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yellow stripes on the throat fewer and shorter, and tlie 

 feathers of the crop have pale yellow margins. 



Hab. North Angola. 



Type in the Tring Museum : <$ . Duque de Braganza, 

 5. viii. 03 : W. J. Ansorge coll. 



All the specimens collected by v. Mechow in North 

 Angola (Berlin Mus.) belonged to the present form, while 

 in North Benguella intermediate examples occurred. 



Mr. C. H. T. Whitehead exhibited specimens of a Bulbul 

 discovered by Major Magrath in Bannu. He proposed to 

 call it 



MoLPASTES MAGKATHI, Sp. n. 



This apparently undescribed form is intermediate in ap- 

 pearance between M. intermedius and M. leucotis. It has 

 the ear-coverts white like the latter, and the back is ashy 

 brown, not so sandy as in M. leucotis. In the latter the 

 line of the black head is sharply defined on the occiput, 

 and contrasts with the brown back, whereas in M. magrathi 

 the mantle is mottled with dusky blackish middles to the 

 feathers. The throat is black down to the fore-neck, tVie 

 chest mottled with black middles to the feathers; this is 

 quite different from the appearance of the breast in M. inter- 

 medius. The vent is orange. The middle tail-feathers are 

 tipped with white to about the same extent as in M. inter- 

 medius. 



Total length 7*2 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 3'4, tail 3"15, 

 tarsus 0*85. 



Dr. ScLATER exhibited two eggs of the Collared Pratincole 

 {Glareola pratincola) from Durban, Natal, which he had 

 lately received from Mr. D. Millar, Col.M.B.O.U. He 

 stated that Mr. Millar had found this bird, which was 

 usually considered as merely a straggler to South Africa, 

 breeding in large numbers on some ploughed lands on the 

 sea-coast about twelve miles from Durban. Mr. Millar had 

 examined thirteen nests, each of which contained two eggs, 

 mostly quite fresh, on November 16th, 1907. 



