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more rufous-brown. The uuderparts are likewise more 

 rufouSj the edges to the feathers of the throat and chest being 

 rufous, while in A. aylmeri they are whitish and contrast 

 very distinctly with the blackish bases of the feathers. 

 Hah. Emberre, Kenya District, 12. ii. 08. 



Bradypterus macrorhynchus, sp. n. 



Adult female. Most nearly allied to B. nyassce, Shelley, but 

 easily distinguished by the much longer culmen, measuring 

 0*7 inch (as compared with 0.6), longer wing, measuring 

 2"75 inches (as compared with 2'55), and by the rather 

 longer tarsus, which measures l^O inch, and is deep black 

 in colour in the dried skin. In B. nyassce the tarsus 

 measures 0'95 inch and is of a pale yellowish-brown in the 

 dried skin. The colours of the soft parts in life have not 

 been recorded in either species. 



The general colour of the plumage is much the same as 

 in B. nyassce^ but the wing and the tail-feathers are blackish- 

 brown, with only the margins to the outer webs rufous. 



Hab. Il-polossat, Laikipia, 7500 ft., B.E.Africa, 21.vi.08. 



Mr. E. G. B. Meade-Waldo (the Treasurer of the Kite- 

 Fund) stated that the breeding-season of the Kite {Milvus 

 milvus) being now over, he thought that the Members of the 

 Club might care to hear some details of what had taken 

 place in Wales during 1910. So far as he had been able 

 to ascertain, the facts were as follows : — Of the four nests 

 which had been watched, three contained young, which were 

 successfully reared. One nest had three young ones, another 

 two, and a third one ; the fourth nest was forsaken during in- 

 cubation. The nest in which only one young bird was reared 

 originally contained two nestlings, but one of these, which 

 had apparently been blown out of the nest during a violent 

 storm, had been found dead at the foot of the tree. 



It had been suggested that the stock of British Kites 

 still existing in Wales had probably become infertile through 

 old age and interbreeding, but this appeared to be by 

 no means the case : on the contrar}^, they seemed to be 



