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Members of the B. 0. U. :— A. L. Butler ; H. L. Cochrane ; 

 E. P. Chance ; E. W. Harper ; A. E. Jones ; A. B. 

 Percival ; W. E. Renaut; H. Whistler; A. F. R. 



WOLLASTON. 



Guests of the Club :— J. H. Fleming; A. Haagner. 



Guests : — D. W. Seth-Smith ; J. B. Sargent ; W. 

 Campbell-Smith ; T. Wells. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman exhibited and described seven new- 

 birds from West Africa, as follows : — 



Micropus sequatorialis lowei, subsp. nov. 



A very distinct subspecies, which differs from the typical 

 M. cvquatorialis cequatorialis in the following particulars 

 (compared with an adult male No. 441 obtained at Aela, 

 S. Abyssinia, 3.ii.01) : — 



Entire upper-parts deep blackish-brown, many shades 

 darker than the Abyssinian birds and also much darker than 

 Shelley's M. alfrediy having a distinct gloss on the plumage; 

 outer edges of the primaries black, inner webs dark brown. 

 General colour of the under-parts blackish-brown ; throat 

 and chin white, this white patch clearly defined and not 

 gradually merging into the chest as in typical cequatorialis. 

 The patch extends 28 mm. from the base of the bill on to the 

 throat, and is 20 mm. in width ; chest, sides of the breast and 

 belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts dark brown, the middle of 

 the breast and belly white, each feather subterminally barred 

 with dark brown and becoming dusky brown at the base. 

 [In M.ce. cequatorialis these breast-feathers are dusky brown, 

 broadly barred subterminally with dark brown and narrowly 

 fringed with white.] 



Under surface of the wing uniform blackish-brown, the 

 feathers running down the outer margin of the wing 

 narrowly tipped with dirty white. 



Bill black ; iris brown ; feet blackish. 



Measurements : — Bill 10 mm., wing 204, tarsus 15. 



Type in the British Museum, 1920.6.15.196, ? ad., 



