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and belly whitish, fringed with brown and barred with black ; 

 but the bars are not so wide as the white interspaces. 



S. reichenowi (Sharpe), from Camaroon, is another closely- 

 allied species, but the female is distinguished from the 

 present species, and also from S. elegans, by the very much 

 heavier and stronger black bars across the middle of the 

 breast and belly, the black and white bands being about 

 equal in width. 



It is now two years since the type specimen of this interest- 

 ing little Eail was received, but, though perfectly aware that 

 it was new, I have postponed describing it, as I had hoped 

 that Mr. Bury would also procure the adult male. He, 

 however, never met with the species again and has now 

 left Somaliland. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also described a new species of Chat 

 from the Sudan : — 



SaXICOLA HAWKERI, Sp. U. 



Adult. Most nearly allied to S. chrysopygia (De Filippi), 

 but altogether darker, especially on the chest, breast, and 

 flanks, which are of a much more pronounced brownish colour. 

 The ear-coverts are of a darker reddish-brown and the vent 

 and under tail-coverts more rufous. Iris brown; legs black. 



Total length ca. 6*0 inches ; wing 3"7 ; tail 2"35 ; 

 tarsus 1"0. 



Hab. Berber, Sudan. 



The type, an adult bird, but with no indication as to the 

 sex, was procured by Mr. R. M. Hawker on the 28th of 

 January, 1902. The occurrence of this African repre- 

 sentative of a species hitherto known only from Asia is of 

 considerable interest. 



Professor Oscar Neumann described and exhibited 

 examples of the following new species and subspecies of 

 African birds, the types of which were in the Tring 

 Museum : — 



Gymnoschizorhis personata centralis, subsp. u. 

 Adult male and female. Similar to G. p. leopoldi, Shelley, 

 from Ugogo and the Masai Countries, but with the forehead 



