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TiGRioRNis, gen. n. 

 Genus simile generi ' Tigriusoma ' dicto, sed tarso anteriore 



reticulato distinguendum. 

 Tvpua est Tiyriornis leucolopha ( Jai'd.) . 



Heterocnus, gen. n. 

 Genus simile generi ' Tigriosoma ' dicto, sed gutture medialiter 



plumoso distinguendum. 

 Typus est Heterocnus cabanisi (Heine). 



Tigriosoma bahi.e, sp. n. 

 Similis T. lineato (Budd.), sed pectore et abdomine bruuneis 

 atque fulvo lat^ fasciatis distinguendum. Long. tot. 

 24-0 poll., culm. 4-2, alee 10-8, caudse 4-2, tarsi 4-0. 



Hab. Bahia, Brazil. 



Dr. Sharpe exhibited, on behalf of Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison, 

 F.R.S., a pair of Himalayan Woodpeckers {Bendrocopus 

 himaluyensis), shot by him in his garden at Murree, N.W. 

 Himalayas, in September. The birds were killed in the act 

 of making holes in walnuts for the purpose of extracting the 

 kernel for food. Dr. Aitchison wrote that two walnut- 

 trees in his garden were infested by these "Woodpeckers, 

 which destroyed a large number of walnuts, picking them off 

 the ground when they fell, and inserting them in crevices 

 and holes in the bark of trees, until they had managed to 

 hammer a hole through the shells. 



Dr. Sharpe also described a new species of Weaver-bird 

 fi'om Eastern Africa, collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith. He 

 gave the following diagnosis of the species : — 



Ploceipasser doxaldsoni, sp. n. 

 P. brunneus, froutis et verticis plumis brunneis, albo squa- 

 matim marginatis : uropygio et supracaudalibus albis : 

 rectricibus albo terminatis : subtus isabellinus, facie 

 laterali gulaque albis, fascia mystacali postica nigra : 

 pectore summo vix fusco striolato distiugueudus. Long, 

 tot. ij-J pull., culm. 0"7, ake o'^, caudie 2'3, tarsi 09. 



Dr. Sharpe also exhibited a specimen of the Red-throated 

 Pipit (Anthus ctrvinus) , which had been su])aiitted to him 



