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neck and upper hack were brown strongly glossed with 

 bronze, while in P. carolce these parts were black and only 

 faintly glossed with bronze ; the feathers of the face round 

 the eye were black witli only an ocular ring of dark bronze, 

 while in P. carota the whole area was golden-bronze ; the 

 side-plumes of the head were also | of an inch longer, and 

 the side-plumes of the body showed scarcely any trace of 

 chestnut. 



Dr. Hautkrt exhibited a specimen of a new Swift and 

 described it as follows ; — 



A PUS ANDECOLUS DINELLII, Subsp. n. 



Adult male. Differs from A. a. andecolus (Lafr.) from Peru 

 and the Andes of Bolivia in having the under surface uni- 

 form greyish-cream-colour, instead of whitish, and the sides 

 brownish-black ; the colour of the back generally of a less 

 deep black, and always confluent with that of the crown. 

 The measurements of this species are the same as in 

 A. a. andecolus. 



Hah. Argentine Republic : Jujuy; Mendoza. 



Type in the Tring Museum : $ . No. 3855. Angosta 

 Perchela, Jujuy, 2550 m., 3. xi. 05. L. Dinelli coll. 



Dr. Hartert also described a new subspecies of Blue 

 Rock-Thrush :— 



MONTICOLA CYANUS TRANSCASPICUS, Subsp. n. 



Adult male and female. Differ from M. c. cyanus (Linn.) in 

 the paler coloration of the plumage. 



Hab. Transcaspia : near Tedjen, Sirax, Aschabad. 

 Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . No. 19111. Sirax. 



Prof. OscAR Neumann described and (with the exception 

 of Trochocercus swynnertoni and Macrosphenus leoninus) ex- 

 hibited examples of the following new species and subspecies 

 of African birds : — 



Amadina fasciata alexanderi, subsp. n. 

 Adult male. Similar to A. f. fasciata, Gmel., from the 

 Sudan, but the entire upperside is irregularly marked with 



