39 [Vol. xliii. 



Type. S adult, Archer's Post, N. Guasso Nyiro, N.E. 

 Kenia, April 1919. In Tring Museum, Dr. Van Someren 

 Coll. 



Habitat. The more open bush and thorn country of the 

 region. 



Distribution. The country round the N. Guasso Nyiro 

 Kiver and Northern Frontier. 



Observation. I drew attention to the possibility of the 

 Kenia birds being separable from the typical species in my 

 paper on African Birds in Novit. Zoologicse, xxix., April 1922, 

 p. 166. It has been my good fortune to secure eight 

 specimens of this new race, and these corroborate my former 

 opinion. 



Mr. Tom Ieedale communicated the following note : — 

 According to the decision of the ' Systema Avium ' Committee 

 to accept the American Ornithologists' Union Code in 

 connection with the rejection of names of like origin and 

 significance which differ in gender only, i.e. ending in -us 

 and -a, I propose the new genus name 



Mathewsiella, _JL 



with Craspedophora magnifica claudia Mathews as type. 



This was referred to the genus Craspedojphora Gray, List 

 Genera Birds, 1st ed. 1840, add. and errata, p. 1, but there 

 is a prior Craspedopliorus of Hope, Coleopt. Manual, vol. ii. 

 pp. 91, 165 (1838). 



The Rev. F. C. R. Joukdain made some remarks on the 

 results of his second expedition to Spitsbergen during 

 the summer of 1922. On this occasion he was accompanied 

 by Major W. M. Congreve and Mr. B. W. Tucker, and a 

 very remarkable feature was the extraordinary diflference in 

 „the conditions during the past season from the previous one. 

 The whole of the west coast of Spitsbergen from South Cape 

 to the north end of Prince Charles' Foreland was blocked by 

 a vast icefield, from ten to twenty or thirty miles wide, and 

 covering an area of about 2000 square miles. On account 



