Ill [Vol. xxi. 



Type: Adult. Mauziuyamaj Ganibo Kraal^ 17. iii. 08: 

 F. P. Mennel and E. C. Chubb coll. 



Dr. Shakpe introduced Mr. Claude Grant, who exhibited 

 a skiu oi: an apparently new form of Lark from the Trans- 

 vaal, procured during the Rudd Expedition. Mr. Grant 

 described it as follows : — 



Heteronyx, gen. n. 



Genus simile geueri Mirafra dicto, sed hallucis ungue (0'75 

 poll.) facile distinguendum. Typus est 



Heteronyx ruddi, sp. n. 

 (J . Similis Mh-afrce cheniance, Smith, sed major, pedibus 

 crassioribus, rostro crassiore, et interscapulio summo 

 cinnamomeo-rufo, maculis longitudinalibus nigris ornato 

 distinguenda. Long. tot. c. 4-8 poll., culm. 065, alse 

 2'7, caudfe 1*6, tarsi 0*95. 

 Hab. Wakkerstroom, Transvaal, 29. ii. 04. 



Mr. Claude Grant also exhibited a specimen o£ the 

 following species, which was new to the avifauna of South 

 Africa : — 



Mirafra zombcB, Ogilvie-Grant, from the Beira district. 



Mr. KoBiN Kemp forwarded the following description of 

 a new species of Babbler, which he proposed to call 



TURDINUS PHCEBEI, sp. U. 



Adult female. Most nearly allied to T. moloneyanus, Sharpe. 

 Crown and nape olive-brown, shading into rufous-brown on 

 the lower hack, rump, and upper tail-coverts -, tail rufous- 

 brown, with brighter outer margins to the feathers ; cheeks 

 olive-brown like the crown and bounded on the lower margin 

 with indistinct grey moustachial stripes; throat pale buff, 

 shading to brownish-buff on the breast, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts ; flanks somewhat darker ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish like the abdomen, under surface of the quills grey, 

 with the bases and inner margins dull white ; under surface 

 of the tail yellowish-broAvn. Iris yellow ; bill, feet, and 

 claws slate-colour. 



