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specimens, the olive-yellow on the upperparts having 

 altogether disappeared. Birds in this plumage had 

 been regarded as adult males of /. major. 

 An examination of the fine series now in the British 

 Museum clearly showed the whole of these changes. 



There could be no doubt that these yellow-plumaged birds 

 were examples of /. indicator in its first plumage, and that 

 subsequently they passed into the hybrid-looking plumage, 

 in which they were known as /. major^ and finally assumed 

 the fully adult plumage of /. indicator'. 



Dr. R. BowDLER Sharpe, on behalf of Mr. Charles 

 Chubb, exhibited examples of an apparently new species of 

 Woodpecker of the genus Dendromus, which Mr. Chubb 

 proposed to call 



Dendromus efulenensis, sp. n. 

 ^ ad. Similis D. nivoso, sed notseo saturatiore, olivascenti- 

 viridi, minime fiavicanti-viridi : pileo f uliginoso-viridi, 

 nee olivascenti-brunneo : gastraso saturatiore et viri- 

 descentiore : subalaribus flavis, minime ochraceo-fulvis. 

 Long. tot. c. 6'6 poll., culm. 0*8, alse 3*4, caudse 1*6, 

 tarsi 0'65. 

 ? ad. Mari similis, sed fascia rubra nuchali nulla. Long, 

 tot. 6*2 poll., culm. 0'7, alse 3'4, caudse 1*7, tarsi 0*55. 

 Hab. Efulen district, Camaroons, vi. & vii. 07 : G. L. 

 Bates coll. 



Mr. Claude Grant, who was introduced to the Members 

 of the Club by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, exhibited and described 

 examples of the following new species of South African 

 birds : — 



Sphen(eacus transvaalensis, sp. n. 

 (^ $ ad. Similis S. natalensi, sed saturatior : pileo et regione 

 parotica saturatius castaneis, illo nigro distincte striolato: 

 pectore et corporis lateribus magis griseo adumbratis, 

 hypochondriis vix nigi'o striolatis. Long. tot. 7'1 poll., 

 culm. 0'6, alse 2*7, caudse 3'5, tarsi I'O. 



Hab. Woodbush Hills, N.E. Transvaal, ll.xi. 05. 



