VoL xxxi.] 2 



Dr. Hartert gave an account of Iiis journey to Tidikelt^ 

 in the centre of the Western Sahara, and illustrated 

 his lecture by maps and examples of the birds which he 

 collected during the trip. The outward journey was from 

 Biskra via Touggourt, Ouargia, and El Golea, thus leading 

 through stony desert^ over sand-dunes and rocky mountain- 

 ranges, and the return journey via El Golea to Ghardai'a and 

 then across the eastern Mzab country to Touggourt and 

 Biskra. 



A full account of these travels and their results will be 

 given in the Tring Museum Journal 'Novitates Zoologicse.' 



Dr. Ernst Hartert also exhibited and described three 

 new birds from the Moluccan Islands and Uganda, as 

 follows : — 



Phyllergates cucullatus batjanensis, subsp, n. 



Adult male. At once distinguished from P. cucullatus 

 dumasi from Buru and Ceram (originally described as 

 P. everetti dumasi^ but these and other allied forms are 

 doubtless representatives of P. cucullatus) by the colour of 

 the abdomen, which is strongly suffused with olive, and by 

 having the nape olivaceous as in P. e. everetti from Flores, not 

 greenish washed with rufous as in P. c, dumasi. From 

 typical P. c. cucidlatus it differs in the colour of the nape, 

 which is cinereous in the latter, and in the olivaceous wash 

 on the abdomen. Wings 47-4<8"2 mm. 



Hab. Batjati, Northern Moluccas. 



Type in the Tring Museum : $ . Batjan, 5000-7000 feet^ 

 vii. 02. J. Waterstradt coll. 



Obs. Two males were obtained, 



Stoparola panayensis obiensis, subsp. n. 



Adult male and female. Nearest to S. p. harterti Van 

 Oort, from Ceram, but differs from the latter in its much 

 •larger and -wider bill, less whitish abdomen, which is pale 

 blue suffused with buff, and in the darker and duller blue 

 of the upper surface. Wings 79'5-80 mm. ; in /S. p. harterti 



