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as follows:— (1) 34x26-8 mm.; (2) 34-5 x 25*7 mm.; 

 (3) 35'8 X 26*5 mm. These eggs contained no j'olk. The 

 exhibitor said that he had taken many small eggs of this 

 species, but it was unusual to find a pigmy clutch so regular 

 in size and markings. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert read the description of the following 

 new subspecies of Desert-Lark : — 



Alaemon alaudipes boavistsBj subsp. n. 



Differs from Alamon alaudipes alaudipes, which varies 

 from a warm sandy buff to greyish on the upperside, in 

 having the whole upperside darker, more brownish, especially 

 the interscapulium and rump, and the bill generally shorter. 



Hab. Cape Verde Islands ; Boavista Island. 



Type. $ ad. Boavista [Boyd Alexander Coll.). 



Mr. WiTHERBY exhibited an example of Anthus campesiris 

 viinor (R. Blasius) collected by the late Col. H. H. Harington 

 at Peshawar on April 16, 1914. The bird was a female and 

 had been obtained by Col. Harington from a nest with four 

 eggs. The measurements of this example were : wing 

 7Q mm., tail 54, tarsus 27, bill from skull 16, as against a 

 wing-measurement of from 81 to 89 m.m. in the female of 

 the typical form. The bird was in worn plumage, but its 

 upper parts, wings, and tail were rather darker than in 

 typical examples in similar plumage ; the sides of the throat 

 and upper breast were distinctly streaked with dark brown. 

 Dr. Hartert (Vogel pal. F. i. p. 269) had considered this 

 form doubtful, but few birds, definitely ascertained to be 

 breeding, had been collected in North-west India. 



Mr. WiTHERBY also exhibited, by courtesy of the authorities 

 of the Natural History Museum, two Black-//^roa/ec? Wheat- 

 ears collected by the late R. B. Woosnam in the Elburz 

 Mountains on April 14th, 19(}7. Both these birds were 

 remarkable in having the black of the sides of the neck 

 extending to the shoulder and joining the black of the wings, 



