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inland from Berbera,” obtained by Mr. E. Lort Phillips and 
identified by Shelley (‘ Ibis,’ 1885, p. 391) as B. augur. 
Two other examples collected by Mr. G. F. Archer, 
C.M.G., H.M.’s High Commissioner for Somaliland at 
Bihendula and Lower Sheihk in Somaliland are in the 
collection of Col. Stephenson Clarke, through whose courtesy 
I have been able to exhibit them to you here to-night. 
The bird is named after Mr. Archer, who has recently been 
making a very fine collection of Somaliland birds. 
I regard the Jackal and Augur Buzzards, together with 
the new Somaliland form, as constituting a group of three 
subspecific forms under the specific name of Buteo jakal. 
Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker exhibited some new subspecies 
of Oriental birds, and made the following remarks :— 
Bhringa remifer peracensis, subsp. nov. 
Whilst working at the Dicruride in the British Museum 
collection, I found that five specimens procured by Mr. Robin- 
son in the mountains of Perak, Telom, and Klong Menao, 
differed most strikingly from all other specimens of Bhringa 
remifer in having more than half the length of the outermost 
tail-feathers webbed, and these webs not starting suddenly 
so as to form broad spatule, but increasing gradually in 
width and never becoming so broad as in typical remifer. 
If carefully examined under a glass it will be seen that in 
the new subspecies there are indications of webs throughout 
the shaft, whereas in B. remifer remifer the shafts are quite 
bare except on the first few inches of the base and at the 
spatulate ends. 
The specimen obtained at Klong Menao j is intermediate 
between B. r. remifer and B.r. peracensis or I should have | 
been inclined to give the latter bird the rank of species, so 
great is the structural difference between the two. In size 
the two forms probably do not differ, the wings of the five 
B. peracensis varying between 127 and 184 mm., and those 
of 140 B. remifer running from 126 to 144 mm. 
