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been procured. All were exactly alike in plumage. No other 

 form of Acredula appeared to be found in Sicily, although 

 Doderlein has stated that A. irbii was met with there. 

 Mr. Whitaker proposed to call the Sicilian bird 



Acredula sicula, n. sp. 



Adult male and female. Most nearly allied to A. caucasica 

 (Lorenz), but distinguished by its shorter wings and tail; 

 the brown sides of the crown are not so dark, and the white 

 stripe down the middle of the crown, so well-marked in 

 A. caucasica, is much less pronounced, the feathers being 

 partly streaked with brown. Iris dark hazel, eyelid yellowish; 

 bill and feet blackish brown. 

 A . sicula : 



S ad. Total length 5-0, wing 225, tail 29, tarsus 0"6. 

 ? ad. Total length 5 0, wing 2*2, tail 29, tarsus 0-6. 

 A. caucasica : 



<J . Total length 5"5, wing 2--15, tail 3*3, tarsus 07. 

 ? . Total length 55, wing 2"45, tail 3 - 2, tarsus 0'7. 

 The specimens of A. caucasica had been kindly forwarded 

 to Mr. Grant for examination by Mr. W. E. Hoyle, the 

 Director of the Owens College Museum, Manchester. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited the type of a 

 remarkable new species of Bush-shrike, which he described 

 as follows : — 



Laniarius dohertyi, n. sp. 



J 1 ad. Upperside bright olive-green ; forehead to about the. 

 middle of the eye crimson. Lores, a line over the eye reach- 

 ing as far as the red on the forehead, ear-coverts, and a wide 

 line bordering the red throat and connecting a 17 mm. wide 

 black pectoral crescent with the ear-coverts, deep black. 

 Chin and throat, as well as under tail-coverts, crimson. 

 Middle of breast and abdomen and thighs bright yellow, 

 sides of breast and abdomen yellowish olive-green. Quills 

 of a deep blackish slate-colour, outer webs olive-green; under 

 wing-coverts dull green. Tail black, with extremely narrow 

 olive tips and outer margins in freshly moulted specimens. 



