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KnIPOLEGUS ATERRIMUS OCKENDENI, Subsp. n. 



Adult male. Differs from K. a. aterrimus, Kaup, from the 

 Argentine Republic, in being smaller, the wing measuring 

 only 80 mm. instead of about 86 to 89, the tail 72"5. 



Adult female. Differs in being smaller, and in having the 

 central pair of rectrices blackish-brown to the base, instead 

 of cinnamon-rufous for at least one-third of the basal portion. 

 Wing 72 mm. 



Hab. Carabaya, Peru. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ? . No. 768. Oconeque, 

 Carabaya, Peru, 7000 feet, 4. vii. 04. G. R. Ockenden coll. 



Obs. This new subspecies differs from K. a. heterogyna, 

 Berl. (Proc. IV. Int. Orn. Congress, p. 471) from North Peru 

 in being smaller. The female has the rump cinnamon- 

 rufous instead of whitish-buff. It is called after the late 

 G. R. Ockenden, who lost his life during his last expedition 

 to the Andes of Peru (c/. Nov. Zool. 1907, p. 341). 



Prof Neumann exhibited and described an example of a 

 new species of bird from Madagascar : — 



Abbotornis schistocercus, sp. n. 



Adult. Similar to ^. chabert (P. L. S. Mull.),but smaller, 

 Avith a much smaller bill and a differently coloured tail. 

 Only the four median tail-feathers are black, the four outer 

 pairs having the basal half white and the distal half black. 

 The basal part of the feathers of the back and rump is white, 

 as well as the inner web of the outer upper tail-coverts. 

 Culmen 14 mm. ; wing 89 j tail 50. 



Hab. West Central Madagascar. 



Type in the Tring Museum. 



Prof. Neumann also exhibited and described examples 

 of the following new forms from Mr. Rudolf Grauer's 

 collection : — 



CORACINA GRAUERI, Sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Head and throat dark ashy grey; 

 upper parts darker grey with a slight metallic gloss ; wing 

 and tail sooty-black; edges of the secondary-quills dark 



