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CKdicnemus dodsoni, sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to CE. affinis (Riipp.), but 

 with the ground-colour of the interscapular region largely 

 mixed with greyish buff, while the deep black markings so 

 conspicuous in the latter species are reduced to shaft-stripes. 

 The greater and median wing-coverts are altogether greyer, 

 the chest and breast more heavily streaked with brownish 

 black, and the middle pair of tail-feathers as well as the outer 

 webs of the two following pairs are mostly grey with indistinct 

 blackish vermiculations and cross-bars. Iris lemon-yellow ; 

 bill lemon-yellow, black at the tip ; legs lemon-yellow. 

 Total length about 14*5 inches, culraen from feathers on 

 forehead to tip 1*4, wing 8"6, tail 4'9, tarsus 3*4. 



Hub. Lahej, S. Arabia. 



Mr. Grant further exhibited the types of the 11 new 

 species discovered by Mr. H. Weld Blundell and Lord Lovat 

 during their recent expedition through Southern Abyssinia, 



Mr. Blundell and Lord Lovat described the new species 

 as follows : — 



1. OttlOLUS MENEL1KI, Sp. n. 



Adult. Most nearly allied to 0. monachus, Gin., from which 

 it may be at once distinguished by having the bill jet-black ; 

 the secondary wing-coverts and outer row of median coverts 

 margined with yellow ; and the third, fourth, and fifth pairs 

 of tail-feathers with a strongly marked black sub-terminal 

 band. " Iris brown ; bill black ; legs slate/' Total length 

 about 10'0 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 5*6, tail 4*0, tarsus 0'95. 



Hab. Burka, Abyssinia: 6th January, 1899. 



2. LUSCINIOLA ABYSSINICA, Sp. II. 



Adult male. Allied to L. thoracica (Blyth) and L. man- 

 dellii (Brooks), but having the upper parts of a darker and 

 richer brown tinged with red on the lower back and rump ; the 

 buff-coloured chest is separated from the white of the throat 

 by a fairly well-marked band of blackish spots ; the sides of 

 the body and flanks are dull rusty brown, and the under tail- 

 coverts uniform dull rust- colour. First primary two-thirds 



