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abdomen (which are white in G. typica) are duller and more 

 brownish slaty black. Wing 203 to 207 mm., tail 112 to 

 1 1 7, culmen 47, metatarsus 40. 



Two skins in a collection made by natives on Banggai, 

 Sula Islands. 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited a specimen of Diphyllodes 

 gulielmitertii, which had been procured in German New 

 Guinea and sent to Tring by Mr. Erik Nyman. 



This was the first time that an exact locality for this rare 

 and beautiful Bird of Paradise had been discovered, but the 

 skins formerly known in collections certainly did not come 

 from the same place, but doubtless from some locality 

 farther west, in Dutch New Guinea. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited some interesting varieties 

 of the Common Partridge of the form known as Perdix 

 montana, and a curious specimen with a black-masked face 

 from Uckfield in Sussex. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant described two new species of 

 birds from the Ethiopian Region : — 



Rhynchostruthus percivali, n. sp. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to R. socotranus, Sclat. & 

 Hartl., but only the mask of the face is black. The crown 

 of the head and nape are earth-brown, only the forehead in 

 front of tLe eyes being black ; the chin and middle of the 

 throat are black, the sides of the throat, fore-neck, sides of 

 neck behind the white cheek-spot, and the chest are light 

 sandy brown. The rest of the plumage is very similar to that 

 of the male of R. socotranus. Total length 6 inches, wing 

 3*0, tail 2'2, tarsus 0*75. 



The type was obtained by Mr. G. W. Bury at Yeshbun, 

 Hadramut (150 miles N.W. of Aden), S. Arabia, Jan. 17, 

 1900, and forwarded to Mr. A. B. Percival, by whom it was 

 presented to the British Museum. 



Pyrrhulauda harrisoni, n. sp. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to P. verticalis (Smith), 

 but altogether paler; the black of the crown, lores, fore part 



