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noticed. Only the middle pair of tail-feathers are changed, 

 the seven outer pairs being retained till they are cast at the 

 autumn-moult.^' 



Colonel Stephenson Clarke contributed a description of 

 a new species of Eush-Warbler which he had procured in 

 Sotik, B. E. Africa. He proposed to call it 



Erbmomela. crawfurdi, sp. n. 



Adult. Most nearly allied to E.Jlavicrissalis, Sharpe, from 

 N.E. Africa, but distinguished by having well-marked 

 white superciliary stripes extending from the lores along 

 the sides of the occiput ; also the sides of the breast dark 

 smoky-grey. Wing 58 mm. ; tail 31. 



Hah. Sotik, B. E. Africa. 



The type is in the British Museum : adult. Loietai, 

 xi. 09. Presented by Colonel Stephenson Clarke. 



Mr. W. P, Pycraft exhibited three skins of female 

 Pheasants in partial male plumage, and one of a male in 

 partial female plumage. 



Two of the female birds were shot at Hever, Kent, and 

 had been presented to the British Museum of Natural 

 History by Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo. In both the 

 feathers of the head and neck were coloured more or less 

 completely like those of the male, but in one the breast- 

 feathers were of a cinnamon-colour. The third female was 

 sent to the Museum by Mr. H. M. Upcher, and was some- 

 what more strikingly coloured than the other two. 



The male in partial female dress was sent by Mr, J. 

 G. Millais. This was a very remarkable bird, the penulti- 

 mate portion of the middle pair of tail-feathers being 

 coloured as in the female, as also were the outer tail-feathers. 

 The hindmost tail-coverts resembled those of the female. 

 The feathers of the lower back were curiously marked, the 

 tips being of a dark metallic green, the rest barred with 

 brown, while many of the breast-feathers were abnormally 

 coloured and unlike those of either sex. The plumage, as 



