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Avifauna. These were Cinnyris niassa (Cinnyris venusta 

 niasscB, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 304) and Alseonax subadusta, 

 both species hitherto known only from Nyasaland. 



Mr. M. J. NicoLL sent for exhibition an adult female of 

 the Red-breasted Flycatcher [Muscicapa parva) obtained by 

 himself in the Giza Zoological Gardens on November 11th, 

 1906. He remarked : — 



" This bird, when first observed by Captain Flower and 

 myself, was sitting on a pile of stones. In its actions it was 

 very Chat-like, and when hopping about the tail was raised 

 above the wings. About an hour later I found it sitting in 

 the same place and, to make the identification sure, shot it. 



" During a residence of eight years in these gardens 

 Caj)tain Flower has never previously met with this species. 

 The Spotted Flycatcher [M. grisola), the Pied Flycatcher 

 {M. atricapilla) , and the Collared Flycatcher {M. collaris) are, 

 however, regular visitors either in spring or in autumn. 



" This would seem to be the first recorded example of this 

 species in Egypt. We can find no mention of it either in 

 Captain Shelley^s ' Birds of Egypt ' or in his ' Birds of 

 Africa.^ It is not recorded fi'om Egypt in any other available 

 work, although Mr. Howard Saunders (Man. Brit. Birds, 

 2nd ed. p. 162) says ' the migrations of this bird in Africa 

 extend to Nubia/ 



" During the night of November 10th there was evidently 

 an arrival of migrants from the north, as on the morning of 

 the 11th several Eobins and ChiffchaflFs were seen, as well as 

 an adult male of the White-spotted Blue-throat [Cyanecula 

 leucocyanea) . The following day several Blackbirds {Turdus 

 meruid) appeared in the gardens, and on the 13th of 

 November the first Fieldfare {T. pilaris) was seen." 



Colonel G. Rippon sent the descriptions of the following 

 new species of birds from Western Yunnan : — 



Carpodacus fbmininus, sp. n. 

 ? . Similis C. thwce ? , sed rubedine gutturis et corporis 

 lateralis absente : superciUo albicante distiuguendus. 



