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berichfce.' In Sweden, Count Gyldenstolpe is busy working 

 at an interesting collection of birds from the Lake Kivu 

 district of Central Africa, where he was collecting for some 

 months with Prince William of Sweden. There is little to 

 report from France and Italy, but in Holland Mr. van Oort 

 is making progress with his finely illustrated woi"k on the 

 Birds of that country. In America considerable activity 

 prevails. We have had the pleasure of seeing no fewer 

 than six distinguished American ornithologists in England 

 daring the past year, all of whom spent some time working 

 in the Natural History Museum. These were Mr. F. M. 

 Chapman who is working on Neotropical birds, Mr. J. P. 

 Chapin who has been examining our African series, Dr. 

 Jonathan Dwight who has been studying our collections of 

 Gulls, Mr. Gilbert Pearson who addressed us on the subject 

 of Bird Protection in America, Dr. Casey Wood, and 

 Mr. John Phillips. It would be, I am sure, a great 

 pleasure to onr American fellow-workers if some of our 

 own '^ Ibides " would visit them on the other side of the 

 Atlantic. 



It has also been a great pleasure to see some of our 

 Australian friends in England during the past session, 

 among them Mr. H. S. Le Souef of Melbourne, Mr. E. 

 Ashby of Blackwood, S. Australia, and Mr. C. L. E. Orton. 



Mr. David Bannerman described two new birds from 

 West and Central Africa, which he proposed to name 



Hypochera chalyheata sharii, subsp. nov. 



Distinguished from H. clialyheata chalyheata by its more 

 velvety-blue coloration. It is much duller in colour than 

 either the typical form or H. c. neumanni, and entirely lacks 

 the steel-blue gloss of the latter race. In colour it more 

 nearly approaches H. c. amauropteryx from South Africa. 



Bill 8, wing 65, tail i}5, taisus 13 mm. 



Type in the British Museum, S ad. Ratu, Gribingui 

 river, French Equatorial Africa, 16 Sept., 1905, Boyd- 

 Alexander coll. B.M. Reg. No. 1911.12.23.3308. 



Range. Gribingui, Shari, Kemo, and Tomi rivers, French 

 Equatorial Africa. 



