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$ • Very like the male, but duller and witliout any metallic 

 feathers and no pectoral tufts. The throat is whitish and 

 the lores grey. Winp; 51 mm. 



Hah. The Rabai Hills, north of Mombasa. Five specimens 

 were taken. 



Typo. ^ ad. Rabni, 10. xi. 1920. V. G. L. van Someren 

 coll. (In Tring Museum.) 



Dr. Ernst Hartert also exhibited a Green Bulbul of the 

 genus P In/ /lasC7'ep/ius which was described by Dr. van Someren 

 and himself as follows: — 



Phyllastrephus rabai Hart. & van Som., sp. nov. 



S ■ Forehead and sides of head Mshy gjrey, crown tinged 

 with green ; feathers under the eyes and ear-coverts with 

 indistinct whitish shaft- streaks ; in fiont and above the eyes 

 an indistinct whitish superciliary line. Back, rump, and tail 

 olivaceous green. Primaries dark brown ; outer webs simihir 

 to the back but brighter and more yellowish gre^n ; inner 

 webs edged with pale lemon-yellow. Under wing-coverts 

 lemon-yellow. Throat white. Breast and abdomen greyish 

 white, clouded with yellow ; middle of abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts lemon-yellow. Iris red-brown. Bill greyish- 

 horn. Feet greyish olive. Wing 68, tail 63, culmen from 

 skull 15*2, tarsus 19 mm. 

 $ considerably smaller. 



Uab. Rabai Hills, north of Mombasa, East Africa. 



Type. ($ ad. Rabai, 18.x. 1920. V. G. L. van Someren 

 coll. (In Tring Museum.) 



This new Phyllastrephus is nearest to P. albigularis and 

 P. leueolcenia, but much smaller ; upperside lighter, and tail 

 green instead of rufous-brown. * 



Mr. H. C. Robinson exhibited some rare birds from the 

 Indo-Malayan subregion, and made the following remarks: — 



Batrachostomus poliolophus Hartert. — Collected by Mr. E. 

 Jacobson in Western Sumatra, and hitherto known only from 

 the unique type in Leyden collected' by Salomon Midler in 

 the same region over eighty years ago. 



