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male oi' T. canians. TLc species avouIci tlicrefore stand as 

 T. cunians. 



!Mr. Rothschild fiirtlier exljibited a specimen of an 

 extremely rare Lark, Mirafra eryihropygia (Strickl.)j 

 and a Kestrel, Cerchnrls uhjjicx, Ileugl. The former Tras 

 only knoAMi from Kordofanj and the Britisli ^Museum 

 possessed only one very poor skin of it ; 'udjile the latter was 

 previously known from Bogosland. Shoa, and Redjag in 

 Equatorial Afiica. The specimens exlubited had, however, 

 been collected by Captain Gitl'ai'd at Gambaga, north of 

 Ashanti, and their occurrence so far west Avas in the highest 

 degree interesting. 



]\Ir. Rothschild also exhibited a pair eacli of Pyrocephalus 

 dubius, Gould, and P. nanus. The former had been described 

 by Gould from one female collected by Darwin on one of 

 the Galapagos Islands, but it was not known which. 



In the ^Catalogue of Birds/ P. dubius had been united with 

 P. nanus in spite of its inferior size and wider and more 

 distinct superciliary stripe. P. dubius was^ however, a per- 

 fectly distinct species and was coniined to Chatham Island, 

 while P. 'nanus occurred on most of the remaining islands of 

 the group. ]Mr. Ridgway had recognized the dictinctness of 

 this form in his excellent ]\Ionograph of the Ornithology of 

 tlie Galapagos Islands, and the series obtained by the Harris 

 expedition fully confirmed his opinion. 



INIr. Erxst Haktekt exhibited a pair of Flycatchers 

 belonging to an undescribed genus and species. He charac- 

 terized them as i'oliows : — 



Dammehia, gen. n. (]\Iuscicapidffi). 



Remarkable for its strong, bigh, and arched beak, with 

 large nostrils plainly to be seen in front of the stiff, short 

 frontal plumes, which are continued on the beak to the 

 nostrils. In the well-developed wing the fifth primary is 

 the longest, the first a little uiore than half the Icugth of the 



