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FiNNis ; D. E. W. GiBB ; E. Hartland ; J. E. Hotson ; 

 H. G. Stokes ; Sir Percy Sykes, K.C.B. ; T. Wells. 



Colonel SiErHENSON R. Clarke exhibited a Barbet which 

 he proposed to name after Sir Drummond Chaplin, K.C.M.G., 

 Administrator of Southern Rhodesia, 



Lybius chaplini, sp. nov. 



Crown, neck, all the under parts, axillaries, and under 

 wing-coverts white. Cheeks white, with pointed scarlet 

 tips to many of the feathers. Lores and eyebrows scarlet. 

 Back dark brown interspersed with a few white feathers, 

 which increase in number on the rump. Wings dark brown, 

 broadly margined on the outer web with yellow ; primaries 

 more narrowly margined with the same colour. Tail-feathers 

 dark brown. Bill and feet blackish grey. 



Culmen 25 mm., wing 92, tail 57, tarsus 25. 



Type in the British Museum. Collected by himself on the 

 Kafue River, North-Western Rhodesia; latitude 16° south, 

 and longitude 26° east. Reported as female by native 

 skinner. 



This increases the number of known white-headed Barbets 

 to four. Of these, L. senex from British East Africa has a 

 white tail, and none of the four species, except L. chaplini, 

 has the face and wing markings resembling those of the 

 black-headed species, L. rubrifacies, from Uganda. 



Dr. Lowe congratulated Col. Stephenson Clarke on the 

 discovery of as interesting a bird as they had seen for 

 a long time. Whatever its exact status might be found 

 to be in the future, it was just one of those specimens 

 which ought to be treasured as likely to increase our 

 knowledge of the inception of species. He was inclined 

 to think that this specimen might be one of several 

 things : — 



(a) An isolated instance of hybridism between two 



