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Association of Audu1)on Societies worked in sympathy and 

 complete harmony with the American Ornithologists' Union 

 and other Societies interested in the scientific study of 

 Ornithology. 



Dr. Ernst Hartetit made remarks on his expedition to 

 Cyrenaica, and described the following new subspecies : — 



Parus caeruleus cyrenaicse, subsp. nov. 



Very much like P. c. idtramarinvs, but frontal white 

 patch smaller, back darker blue, and wing shorter. Wing, 

 (? 60, ? 58 mm., as against c? 63-07, ? 61-64 mm., in 

 P. c. xdtramarinus. 



Ilah. Woods of the mountains and plateau of north-western 

 Cyrenaica, or Barka. 



Type. S ^^-i juniper woods near Merg, 4. v. 22. Hartert 

 and Hilgert coll. 



Troglodytes troglodytes jimiperi, subsp. nov. 



Differs from 7. t. kahyloruin in its longer bill and darker 

 brown feet. 



Hah. Juniper woods on mountains and plateau of north- 

 western Cyrenaica, or Barka. 



Type. S ad., near Merg, 9.v. 22. Hartert and Hilgert 

 coll. 



Lt.-Col. Meinertzhagen made the following remarks ; — 



I have recently had occasion to examine the races of 

 Certliia Jdmalayana, in order to verify two specimens from 

 Ziarat near Quetta. Vigors's type of C. liimalayana was 

 lodged in the collection of the Zoological Society, which 

 collection was sold. The type is therefore lost to science. 

 It was undoubtedly collected in either Garhwal or Kumaon. 

 There are, however, two specimens in the British Museum 

 shot at Pushut in Afghanistan, on the labels of which 

 is written "type*" in Gadow's handwriting, done probably 



