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between the Sok Pass and Lhassa. Still further to the 

 south, 150 miles east of Lhassa, was found C. harmani, of 

 which a drawing was exhibited. East of Chiamdo and 

 Batang, examples of C tidetanurn had been found by the 

 Abbe David at Moupin, and by Mr. Pratt at Ta-chien-loo, and 

 examples from both localities were exhibited. The range of 

 this species seemed to overlap that of C. leucurum in East 

 Tibet, but the latter was not known to extend into Western 

 China. Examples of C. auritwn collected by General Prje- 

 valski on the plateau east of Koko-Nor, and the type of 

 C. manchuricum obtained by the Abbe David on the plateau 

 west of Pekin, were laid on the table for comparison. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe exhibited a specimen of an appa- 

 rently new species of RJiipidura from the island of Dammar, 

 in the Banda Sea, where it had been procured by Dr. Bassett 

 Smith during the recent voyage of H.M.S, 'Penguin' : — 



Rhipidura buttikoferi, sp. n. 

 R. similis R. setosce, sed ubique saturatior, nigricanti-brunnea, 

 nee grisea, et rectricibus duabus exterioribus longius 

 albo terminatis. Long. tot. 6"8 poll., culm. 0*7, alee 3*4, 

 caudse 3'4, tarsi 0'65. 

 According to the describer's arrangement in the ' Cata- 

 logue of Birds,' the species would fall in the ^^ Key " to the 

 species of Rhipidura (vol. iv. pp. 303-308) close to R. setosa 

 {t. c. p. 329) ; but it differed from the latter in being blackish 

 brown instead of ashy grey, and the white on the tail waa 

 much more extended. Under Count Salvadori''s arransre- 

 ment (Orn. Papuasia, ii.^ p. 53) of the genus Rhipidura, the 

 Dammar species would also be closely allied to R. setosa. 

 According, however, to the most recent disposition of the 

 genus by Mr. Buttikofer (Notes Leyden Mus. xv. pp. 65-98), 

 the new species would come into a different section from 

 R. setosa, because the upper surface could never be considered 

 to be "pure ashy grey; '' on the contrary, the colour of the 

 upper parts was dark chocolatc-browu, almost blackish. Thus, 

 to follow Mr. Buttikofer, the species would come next to 

 R. i.sitra; but Ijfie again, as in the case oiR. sttosa, the dark 



