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Dr. BowDLER Sharpe exhibited the skin of an apparently 

 new species of Dicaum from Mount Masarang in Northern 

 Celebes, collected by Mr. Charles Hose. It was an inter- 

 mediate form between D. nigrimentum, Salvad., and D.pryeri, 

 Sharpe. The name proposed was 



Dicj:uM Hosir, n. sp. 

 D. similis D. nigrimento, sed gula superiore totS, nigra dis- 

 tinguendum. Long. tot. 3'2 poll., alee 1"8. 



Dr. Sharpe also exhibited some specimens of birds re- 

 cently sent by Mr. F. J. Jackson from Uganda, amongst 

 them being several typical West-African forms. The "West- 

 African element in the regions of the Upper Nile district 

 had already been demonstrated by Dr. Sharpe in his account 

 of Bohndor2'''s collections in the Niam-niam country (Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. pp. 419-441), and by Dr. Reichenow in his 

 treatise on the birds collected by Dr. Stuhlmann and Emia 

 Pasha on the Victoria Nyanza (J. f. O. 189.2, pp. 1-60). 

 Mr. Jackson had, however, been able to add several West- 

 African species to the Avifauna of Uganda, among them 

 being the following : — Campophaga phoBnicea (N'tebi), Bias 

 musicus (N^tebi), Nicator chloris (Busoga, N^tebi), Malimbus 

 rubricoUis (N''tebi), Melocichla meiitalis (N'tebi), Burnesia 

 leucopogon, &c. 



The following species were described by Dr. Sharpe as 

 new : — 



DrYODROMAS RUFIDORSALIS, n. Sp. 



D. similis D. smithii, sed pileo et notaeo toto rufescente, illo 

 saturatiore distinguenda. Long. tot. 5"3 poll., alze 2*0. 

 Hab. River Tsavo, Sept. 20, 1894 [F. J. Jackson). 



Lamprotornis brevicaudus, n. sp. 

 L. similis L. porphijroptero, sed valde minor et cauda con- 

 spicue breviore distinguenda. Long. tot. 11 '5 poll., 

 alse 5'8. 

 Hab. Elgeyu [F. J. Jackson). 



The differences in the lenirth of the tail betux-en the 



