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brownish-grey than are examples in freshly moulted autumn 

 plumage. 



I have examined several examples in Egypt in January, 

 February, November, and December, both adults and young. 



The synonymy of this new race is as follows : — 



? A7ithns campestris minor 11. Blasius in * Naumann, 

 Nafcurg.Vog. Mitteleuropas,' iii. p. 74 (1900, ex Homeyer MS. 

 & nom. nud. Grabowski, 1893). 



Anthus rufulus YieWlot. Nicoll, '^ Hand-list of the Birds 

 of Egypt/ p. 24(1919). 



Mr. H. F. WlTHERBY exhibited a series of eight specimens 

 of Acrocephalus, collected by the late Colonel H. H. Harington 

 in the Kaghan, N.W. India, in June and July 1914, which 

 he proposed to separj^te as a nev? geographical I'ace as 

 follows : — 



Acrocephalns agricola haringtoni, subsp. nov. 



Similar to ^4.. a. concinens, but considerably more buff on 



the flanks and breast, and with a very slightly smaller bill. 



In addition to the series exhibited, five breeding birds 



collected in the same valley by the late Captain Whitehead 



liad been examined, and all differed at a glance from a series 



of A. a. concinens from China, by their more buff flanks and 



breasts. Their measurements were as follows: — c? , wing 



56-58 mm., tail 5h'-58, bill from skull 14-14-5. ? , wing 



54-58 mm., bill 12*5-14-5. Wing-formula as in 4* «• 



concinens, the 2nd primary being between the 8th and 



10th. A. a. agricola, though differing in wing-formula, the 



2nd primary being longer (tyi)e, Madras winter, in Brit. 



Mas. examined), was in winter plumage often as buff' on the 



flanks as the form described. In summer plumage, if, indeed, 



breeding birds from Turkestan were the true A. a. agricola, 



they were even whiter on the un(ler[)arts than A. a. concinens. 



Type. S, Buttakundi, Kaghan, 12.7.1914, breeding, 



collected by H. H. Harington, in coll. H. F. Witherby. 



Dr. H. Langton exhibited a Yellowshank, Totanvs 

 fiavipes, shot by Major A. A. Dorrien-Sinith on the Little 



