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obtained tlie nest and eggs of the Blue-headed Wagtail 

 [Motacilla flava) : cf. Ticehurst, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. no, xcix. 

 p. 78 (1903). Mr. Bunyard believed this to be the first 

 recorded instance of M. borealis having bred in Great Britain. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant described a new species of 

 Chat-Thrush from Somaliland : — 



Erythropyg[a hamertoni, sp. n. 



Aedon galactodes minor, Witlierby (nee Cabanis), Ibis^ 1905, 

 p. 520. 



Adult male. In general appearance closely resembling the 

 smaller race of Aedon galactodes (Temm.), from which, 

 however, it may be at once distiuguished by the much 

 shorter wing with the secondary quills distinctly margined 

 on the outer web with white, and by the more slender 

 feet. 



Of the species of Erythropygia, it perhaps most nearly 

 resembles E. poena (Smith), but is very distinct from all 

 those already described. 



Total length ca. 5'5 inches ; wing 2"8 ; tail 2*6; tarsus 0'88. 



Immature male. Resembles the adult, but the chest and 

 upper breast are indistinctly spotted with dusky, showing the 

 species to be a Thrush, and not a Warbler. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant thought it extremely doubtful if Aedon 

 and Erythropygia were generically separable. 



Hab. Beira {Capt. A. E. Hamerton) and Wagar Mts. 

 (G. W. Bury), Somaliland. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also described the following new 

 species from Equatorial Africa, from specimens included in 

 a large collection Avhicli he had just received from the 

 Ruwenzori Expedition : — 



Alethe woosnami, sp, n. 



Adult male. Similar to A. diademata (Bonap,), but rather 

 larger and with all the tail-feathers black to the tip, the 

 upperparts, especially the lower back and rump, more 

 rufescent. Iris dark hazel; bill black ; feet grey. 



