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Pheasant said to have heen shot in Hertfordshire, and 

 belonging to Mr. Cecil Braithwaite. The second was a very 

 dark-coloured hen bird, supposed to be a hybrid between a 

 Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) and a female Phasianus colchicus. 

 Mr. Tegetmeier regarded it as a dark variety of an ordinary 

 hen Pheasant. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander described a new species of Chloro- 

 dyta from the Zambesi River as follows : — 



Chlorodyta neglecta, sp. n. 



Similis C. flavidce ex terra. Damarensi, sed uropygio et inter- 

 scapulio concoloribus, genis guttureque toto et sub- 

 alaribus albis, minime fiavis, subcaudalibus albis, ncc 

 fiavis, et tibiis grisescenti-albis, distinguenda. 

 Hab. S.E. Africa to Mozambique. 



Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker sent the description of a new 

 species of Chat in the British Museum collection. The bird 

 had been wrongly identified as S. mcesta, Licht. He there- 

 fore proposed to call it 



" Saxicola cummingi, sp. n. 



kl Adult. Closely allied to S. xanthoprymna, H. & E., but 

 distinguished by having the basal part of the tail-feathers 

 rusty red like the upper tail-coverts, instead of white. From 

 S. mcesta to be at once distinguished by having the top of 

 the head and nape brownish grey like the back, the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts rusty and the rufous on the outer 

 tail-feathers extending to within 0*7 inch of the extremity. 

 Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 0*78, wing 3*7, tail 2*45, 

 tarsus 095. 



"Hab. Fao, Persian Gulf (TV. D. Camming)." 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant exhibited some of the more 

 interesting birds obtained by Major Wingate during his 

 recent expedition from the Yang-tze-kiang through Southern 

 China to Bhamo. One of the most striking of these was 

 a fine adult pair of Merganser squamatus (Gould), previously 

 known only from an immature male described in 1864. 



