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Lord Rothschild, F.R.S., described a new Flycatcher 

 from Australia, as follows : — 



Micrceca flavigaster laetissima, subsp. nov. 



Differs from Micrceca flavigaste}' flaviyaster by its longer 

 wing, much paler underside, and slightly less brownish 

 crown of the head ; from M. flavigaster lata by the much 

 paler underside and somewhat duller colouration of the 

 vipperside ; this would have to be said also of M. f. terrce- 

 regincE Mathews, which is very closely allied to, if at all 

 separable from, M. f. lata. Wing of six specimens of M. f. 

 IcBtissima, 78-83 mm. 



Hab. Queensland (Bowen, Cardwell, Mulgrave). 



Type in the Tring Museum : $ . Cardwell, Queensland. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described two new 

 subspecies of birds as follows: — 



Corydon sumatramis brunnescens, subsp. n. 



Similar to C. sumatranus sumatranus from Sumatra and 

 the Malay Peninsula, but upperside, breast, and abdomen 

 dark sepia-brown, instead of dull black. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Type in the Tring Museum : cJ ad. Baram, Borneo, 

 September 1891. A. Everett coll. 



Compared ten Bornean with fourteen specimens from 

 the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



Dioptrornis semicinctus, sp. n. 



Differs from both D. fischeri and toruensis by the almost 

 uniform light grey underside, the middle of the abdomen 

 not being white. The eye is surrounded by an incomplete 

 circle of white, interrupted in front and behind the eye ; in 

 D. fischeri the white circle is complete and wider, in 

 D. toruensis it is absent. The lateral tail-feathers in the 

 type of D. semicinctus have tiny white tips, but it is possible 



