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yellow-green. It resembles M. a. cunhai Kloss, of Annara. 



in its bright colouring, but the forehead is as in M. argentauris 



typ. and the red patch at base of quills is not prolonged along 



the edge of the secondaries. Wing 78, 79 mm. (two males). 



Type^ c? • Szemao, S. Yunnan, 23rd Jan., 1923. 



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^githina tiphia styani, subsp. nov. 



Nearest to ^E. t. tiphia, but with much longer bill, wings, 

 and tail. The green and yellow colouring is very bright as 

 compared with Indo-Chinese birds. Culmen 15 mm , wing 

 70, 71 mm., tail 57, 63 mm., tarsus 19 mm. (two immature 

 males in winter dress). 



Ti/pe ((J). South Yunnan (Szemao?), not labelled. 



Mr. T. Wells described the following new form of Barbet : 

 *-f- Cyanops davisoni laurentii. 



Adult. Nearly allied to C. d. davisoiii (Hume), but duller 

 above. It differs in lacking the green spot in front of the 

 eye, in having a longer wing, 101-105 mm. (in C. d. davisoni 

 the wing measures 95-100 mm,), and in having a shorter 

 stouter bill. 



2'ype. In the British Museum. ? ad., Yuen Chang, 

 Yunnan. F. W. Styan Coll., 1914.4.8.9. 



Named in honour of Mr. E. P. Laurente, who collected so 

 many birds for Mr. La Touche around Mengtze. 



Dr. Percy Lowe communicated the following : — 



\~ Atlantisia, gen. nov. 



Characters. Bill shorter than head, slender, compressed ; 

 upper mandible decurved; gonys upcurved, so that bill viewed 

 laterally has a dertrum-like ending very similar to what 

 obtains in a plover or pigeon. Nasal groove extending 

 beyond middle of bill. Nostrils linear, basal, parallel with 

 lower edge of upper mandible, overhung by operculum. 

 Culmen decidedly shorter than middle toe with claw. No 

 frontal shield. 



Tarsus shorter than middle toe with claw ; hind toe with 

 claw half as long as tarsus ; tarsus and toes distinctly slender. 



