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pinkish, under nianclil)le at tip horn-colour, followed by 

 II white line, then flesh-colour, or entirely whitish flesh- 

 colour. 



Hah. Fuertaventura and Lanzarote, Eastern Canary 

 Islands. Type rj Fuertaventura, 28. v. 1904 (No. 2895), in 

 Tring Museum. I have examined five specimens collected 

 by Hauptmann Polatzek. 



Dr. ScLATER exhibited two photogTaphs of the nests of 

 the colony of Cape Weaver-birds [Sitagra capensis) in the 

 Public Gardens at Cape Town, which he had alluded to in 

 his address at the last meetino- of the Club {see above, p. 9). 

 These photographs had just l)pen received from Mr. W. L. 

 Sclater. 



Mr. A. Trevor-Battye gave a short account of some of 

 tlie birds he had met with during last September on the 

 Upper Zambesi. He exj)lained that he left the Rhodesian 

 Railway at the Victoria Falls, travelled on horseback about 

 fifty miles to the trading station of Kazungula, and thence 

 b}' native dug-out canoes up the Zambesi about fifty miles 

 further to Shesheke (King Lewanika's former capital — now 

 the home of his eldest son, Litia), a missionary station, 

 and the j)0st of a Chartered Company's Assistant Com- 

 missioner, Mr. W. P. Cockerell. Mr. Trevor-Battye had 

 intended to spend a month or so collecting at Shesheke, 

 but, immediately upon his arrival there, was unavoidably 

 summoned l)ack to England. He was therefore only able 

 to give the members of the Club a general account of the 

 birds seen up and down the river. 



The river was wooded in character as far as Kazungula, 

 and thence, to Shesheke, ran chiefly through a high, open 

 plain. It therefore followed that the birds seen during 

 the first and the second part of the journey would be more 

 or less distinct. 



Among the birds seen in the forest region Avere Meyer's 

 Parrot {Fceocephalus meyeri). These birds were difficult 

 to detect, as they usually sat among the thick foliage of 

 the masungula trees, and on the trees being approached 



