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easy means of distinguishing at a glance between the ducks 

 of the two species. Since the publication of the e Bulletin/ 

 Major Horsbrugh has kindly forwarded me a page of an 

 American paper, ' Forest and Stream/ published on the 

 15th of April, 1911, in which Mr. J. C. Phillips has drawn 

 attention to the same point, and has also figured the axillaries 

 to show the differences in these ducks. I regret that I 

 did not receive this sheet in time to include some remark 

 in the last number of the ' Bulletin/ As Mr. Phillips' note 

 was published in an American paper which is probably not 

 very widely read in this country, I do not regret having 

 drawn the attention of our Members to this interesting 

 point, which is certainly known to few. 



Col. Stephenson Clarke sent for exhibition an example 

 of a new subspecies of Camaroptera superciliaris from Uganda 

 which he proposed to name 



Camaroptera superciliaris ugand^e, subsp. n. 



Adult. Similar to C. superciliaris, which it resembles in 

 the colour of the upperparts, but with the underparts 

 lighter, particularly on the abdomen, which is white without 

 any tinge of olive-brown. The tail is longer than in 

 specimens of 0. superciliaris from the West Coast, and 

 measures 37 mm. as compared with 30 mm. or less. 



The only specimen in the British Museum which approaches 

 the Uganda bird is one from the Congo Forest, which has 

 the belly whiter than in any of the series from the West Coast, 

 but not so white as in the Uganda bird. This specimen has 

 the tail short, measuring 30 mm., and must be referred to 

 C. superciliaris. 



Hob. Uganda. 



Type in the British Museum : Adult. Presented by 

 Colonel R. Stephenson Clarke. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes said that in the last number of the 

 f Bulletin ' he had read with very great interest Mr. Stuart 

 Baker's remarks (pp. 121-3) on the re-discovery of Crosso- 

 ptilon harmani by Captain F. M. Bailey in the Mishmi- 



