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almost black;, the white streaks on the nape thus appearing 

 much more distinct; mantle and inner secondaries chestnut- 

 brown, the latter washed with olive. 



Culmen 30 mm.j wing 160; tail 206; tarsus 39. 



Hab. Angola to mouth of Congo Eiver, eastward to east 

 Belgian Congo and north-eastern Rhodesia. 



Type in British Museum : ^ ad. Near Dalla Tando, 

 North Angola, 21. viii. 08. Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Centropus superciliosus sokotraB, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Nape, sides of neck, and entire underparts 

 much paler than in C. s. superciliosus; almost lacking the 

 strong buff coloration of the typical form, which thus gives 

 it a very grey appearance. 



Culmen 32 mm. ; wing 157 ; tail 194; tarsus 36. 



Hab. Sokotra. 



Type in the British Museum : (^ ad. Adho Dimellus, 

 Sokotra, 5.ii. 99. W. E. Ogilvie-Grant and H. O. Forbes 

 colls. 



Melittophagus variegatus bangweoloensis, subsp. n. 



Adult female. Size as in M. v. variegatus, but differs from 

 that race in having the blue band across the lower neck 

 much narrower and of a somewhat deeper and darker tint; 

 below this band there is only a narrow margin of saffron, and 

 the rest of the underparts, including the throat, are rather 

 paler. 



Culmen 25 mm. ; win g 85 ; tail 63 ; tarsus 9. 



Hab. Lake Bangweolo District, N.E. Rhodesia. 



Type in the British Museum : ? ad. Luena District, 

 N.E. Rhodesia (within 10 miles of eastern shores of Lake 

 Bangweolo, 17. vi, 08. S. A. Neave coll. 



Mr. S. L. Whymper exhibited a number of rare eggs from 

 the higher Himalayas, taken by himself, and made the 

 following remarks : — 



" 1 have ventured to show these few eggs from the higher 

 Himalayas as they are mostly of species occurring in the 

 Palaearctic list, and should be therefore of more tlian merely 



