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shorter and finer bill. The bill in male examples from Burn 

 measures 17-19 ram., in those from other islands 21-2.2 mm. 

 Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . Bara, Buru, September 

 1898. Obtained by Mr. Dumas, the late A. Everett's 

 collector. 



Calandrella minor AHARONir, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Resembles C. minor leucophcea, but the upper- 

 side is not so pale, being greyish or sometimes browner, and 

 always darker^ with the blackish central markings larger 

 and more conspicuous ; the jugulum is more distinctly 

 spotted, tbe bill thicker, the wing longer, and the outermost 

 rectrices have wider black edges to the inner webs. It 

 differs from C. minor seehohmi in having the upperparts 

 much less sandy and greyer in colour, and in having blacker 

 spots on the jugulum. Wing 96*5-104 mm. 



Ilab. North Syrian Desert. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . Karyatein, 25. iii. 10. 

 Obtained by J. Aharoni. 



Obs. Numbers of this large, thick-billed, greyish form 

 were collected in March 1910 at Karyatein in the Syrian 

 Desert, but though the collector believes it to be a resident 

 bird, absolute proof of this fact is still wanting, and I am 

 inclined to think that it is a Central Asiatic bird spending 

 the winter in Syria. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., exhibited a new 

 form of AniblyGrnis, which he described as follows : — 



Amblyornis subalaris germanus, subsp. n. 



Adult female. Slightly darker and more rufescent than the 

 female of A. subalaris subalaris, the feathers of the throat 

 being uniform, while in the latter they have a paler median 

 line and dark brown edges. 



Culmen 28 mm. ; wing 128 ; tail (somewhat worn) 

 about 90 ; metatarsus 38. 



Crest of the male like that of A. s. suhalaris. 



Hah. Rawlinson Mts., German New Guinea. 



For this novelty I am indebted to Professor Foerster, of 



