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Type in tlie Tring Museum. No. 4460. Oetak\Ya Eiver_, 

 l.viii.lO. A. S. Meek coll. 



Mr. E.OTHSCHILD also made the following remarks : — 

 " In the last number of the ' Bulletin ' there appeared^ on 

 page 36j an editorial note which refers to my collector, Mr. A. 

 S. Meek, and which might be misinterpreted. Mr. Meek 

 did not accompany the main Dutch Expedition exploring 

 towards Carstensz Peak, but joined the miUtary escort which 

 formed the base camp on the Oetakwa River. Mr. Meek 

 has been collecting in the mountain -ranges nearer the 

 coast up to an elevation of from 6000 to 7000 feet, and 

 proposed to return to Sydney at the end of last December. 

 There he intended to refit his schooner before starting for 

 the Arfak Peninsula.^' 



Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described examples of 

 tw^o new subspecies of birds which he proposed to name : — 



Ammomanes deserti whitakeri, subsp. n. 



Nearest to A. d. phcenicuruides (Blytb), but with the 

 breast and abdomen, as well as the jugulum, more or less 

 distinctly marked with dark brownish-grey stripes, which, 

 however, are not so dark as in A. d. assabensis, Salvad. 

 The bill is larger and yellower ; the colour of the upperside 

 less sandy and less grey, darker and of a more rufous-brown- 

 grey than in A. d. phosnicnroides ; also the upper tail-coverts 

 are more rufescent. It differs from A. d. saturatus, Grant, 

 in the lighter and less grey colour of the upperside, and in 

 having a larger and yellower bill. " Bill and legs yellow- 

 ochre.'"' Culmen 18-20*5 ; wing (approximately, all speci- 

 mens being in worn summer-plumage), S 104-106"5, ? 97- 

 100 mm. 



Hab. Djebel Soda in Tripoli. 



This new form of Desert-Lark is named in honour of 

 Mr. Joseph I. S. Whitaker. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . No. 189. Koshby, 

 16. vi.Ol. 



