Wol. xi] i 64 
Colonel STEPHENSON CLARKE described a new Lark from 
Somaliland as follows :— 
Heteromirafra archeri, sp. nov. 
This is a most interesting discovery. The only known 
species of Heteromirafa, first called Heteronyx, was found 
by Claude Grant in the Transvaal and described by him as 
a new species and a new genus (Bull. B.O.C. xxi. 1908, 
p-111). The present specimen was obtained, with two others, 
on the Somaliland-Abyssinian frontier, 2500 miles to the 
north. Between these two localities no members of the genus 
areknown. This species differs from 7. rudd: of the Trans- 
vaal in having paler and wider edges to the feathers of the 
upper surface, the general tone being thus distinctly paler. 
On the underside, the spots on the crop are smaller, less 
numerous, and more sharply defined. The two species are so 
alike that had it not been for the enormous gap in the dis- 
tribution, I should have had little hesitation in calling them 
subspecies of the same bird. As the generic name Heteronyx 
was found to be preoccupied, Mr. Grant proposed Hetero- 
mirafra in its place (Bull. B. O. C. xxxi. p. 114). 
Type of H. archerti a 9, from Jifa, western frontier of 
British Somaliland, 5000 ft., 23 Sept. 1918, collected by 
G. F. Archer, after whom it is named. 
Measurements :—Wing 72mm. Tail50mm. Bill12mm. 
Nail of hind claw 14°5 mm. ' 
Lord Roruscuitp, F.R.S., exhibited a series of New 
Guinea Parrots, of the desmaresti group of the genus Opo- 
psitta, and-made the following remarks :-— 
Most authors, including Count Salvadori, have adopted 
the name of Cyelopsitta Rchnb. for this genus of Parrots 
and, curiously enough, assigned as the type diophthalma 
Homb. & Jacq., although Reichenbach’s plate is Nor that 
bird. . 
Mr. Gregory Mathews in Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 261 
(1912) clearly proved that the name Cyclopsitta was not 
admissible, as the diagnostic figures in Reichenbach’s plate 
do not agree with any known species of the genus. In his 
