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1904, which has evideutly been in captivity, the left wing 

 having been pinioned. This bird is altogether somewhat 

 greyer than tlie type specimen, the undcrparts especially 

 being dirty yellowish-grey, instead of reddish-grey, though 

 the markings in both specimens are identical. The tail, 

 which is fully grown, measures 78 inches. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander forwarded descriptions of two new 

 species of birds from Lake Chad : — 



Calamocichla neglecta, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Similar to C. leptorhyiulia 

 (Reichenow), but larger, and darker on the upperparts. 

 (J . Culmen 16 mm. ; wing 68 ; tail 72. 

 ? . Culraen 14 mm. ; wing 61 ; tail 65. 

 Hab. Lake Chad, 5. xii. 04. 



HyPOCHERA NliUMANNI, Sp. U. 



Adult male. Similar to H. chalybeata (P. L. S. Miill.), 

 but with the entire upper- and underparts clear steel-blue, 

 with no greenish gloss, as in H. chalybeata. Culmen 8 mm. ; 

 wing 64 ; tail 44. 



Hab. Yo, near Lake Chad, 19. xi. 04. 



The Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain exhibited a clutch of four 

 eggs ascribed by the collector (Herr Wilh. Riickbeil) to 

 Rhopophilus albosuperciliaris (Hume & Henderson). They 

 differed widely in appearance from the egg described and 

 figured in the ' Ibis/ 1908, p. 486, pi. x. fig. 3, as that of 

 this species. Herr Riickbeil obtained at least two clutches 

 of eggs, and also sent home skins ; but it is not certain that 

 the birds were shot from the nest, so that the authenticity 

 of the eggs, thougli probable, cannot yet be said to be 

 conclusively proved [cf. 'Ibis,' 1908, p. 634). 



Mr. W. P. Pycraft exhibited a portion of a slab of 

 marly-limestone from the Lower Pliocene of Gabbro, near 

 Leghorn, which contained the greater portion of the hind 

 limbs, as well as traces of the vertebrae and feathers, of a 

 Pipit, apparently of the genus Anthus. So far as he was 



