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darker. Very close to Prinia g. palcestince, but the sub- 

 terminal black and white bar on the tail is much less 

 distinct than in that race. 



Wing of 5 males and females, 39-44 mm. 



Tr/pe. In the Tring Museum. Adult female, Baghdad, 

 9. i. 1923. 



Obs. This race appears to extend in Mesopotamia from 

 Kirkuk in Southern Kurdestan to Baghdad, and thence 

 south down the Tigris and Euphrates to Fao on the Persian 

 Gulf. Specimens from the coast of Southern Persia appear 

 intermediate between this race and P. g. lepida. Birds 

 from Quetta are typical Prinia g. lepida, but there is in the 

 British Museum a bird from Kohat which closely resembles 

 P. g. irakensis in colour. 



Mr, H. KiRKE SwANN exhibited and made remarks upon 

 the following skins of American Hawks : — 



Urubitinga gundlachi (Cab.). From Cuba. Exhibited 

 for the first time in England. Dr. Sharpe thought it might 

 be the young of U. anthracina, and, indeed, considered it as a 

 synonym of that species ; yet it is an entirely different bird, 

 having a brown plumage when adult. 



Chondrohierax wiLSONi (Cass.). Also from Cuba. It 

 will be seen that this rare species is very different from the 

 other two species of the genus, although it has the bill of 

 C. megarhynclius, which is really little more than a large- 

 billed form of C. uncinatus. 



Falco golumbarius bendirei Swann. From California. 

 This form was described by me in Bull. B.O. U. xlii. p. 6Q 

 (1922). It differs very materially from the other three North 

 American Merlins. It is the form inhabiting the Pacific 

 coast from California to Washington State and from thence 

 north-eastwards to Alberta, the coast from British (/olunibia 

 northward being occupied by Falco c. suckleyi, which has the 

 upper parts and tail black. 



Cbrchneis sparverius guatemalensis Swann. From 

 Guatemala (type). The " Sparrow-Hawk " of Central 



