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1 cJ , T. u. urogallus, Capercaillie. IMarburg, Germany 

 May 1897 (General Hartert coll.); 1 ?, Kircaldy, Fife, 

 Scotland, Jan. 1919. 



(4) Blackcock, Lyrurus tetrix viridanus (Lor.) X Willow- 

 Grouse, Lac/opus lagopiis major Lor. 



2 Hybrids: 1 S, Tobolsk, Siberia, Oct. 1895. 1^, 

 Leadenhall Market, from consignment of frozen Russian 

 game, Jan. 1895. 



1 S , L. I. major, Willow-Grouse. Orenburg, 1887. 



Lord Rothschild also exhibited three photographs, taken 

 by Mr. George Forrest, of a morning's bag of Eared 

 Pheasants, Crossoptilon crossoptilon C7'ossoptiloii (Hodgs.). 

 Lichiaug Range, N.W. Yunnan, 1922. 



Count Nils Gyldenstolpe sent the following description 

 of a new subspecies of FoUospiza burtoni, together with some 

 notes on allied races : — 



Poliospiza burtoni somereni, subsp. n. 



Diagnosis. Most closely allied to P. b. kilimensis Rich- 

 mond from Kilimanjaro, and then distinguished from 

 P. b. burtoni Gray from the Oamei-oon Mountain, P. b. albi- 

 frons Sharpe from Kikuyu, and P. b. monticola Reichenow 

 from Adamana, by haviug practically no white colour on the 

 forehead in the fully adult birds. It is, however, easily 

 distinguished from the Kilimanjaro form by its larger size 

 and by its more brownish upper parts. Culmen also slightly 

 longer and the whole bill moi'e robust. 



Typ>e. Adult male, collected on the eastern slopes of Elgon, 

 6500 ft., 25th May, 1920, by H. Granvik. Type in the 

 Royal Nat. Hist. Museum at Stockholm. 



Dimensions of type. Total length 170 mm. ; wing 88 mm. ; 

 tail 77 mm ; culmen, 16 mm ; tarsus 21 mm. 



Hab. Mount Elgon, Mau, Eldoma, Nandi, and Laikipia. 



Pemarks. Named in honour of Doctor V. G. L. van 

 Someren, who first drew attention to the possibility of the 



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