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Iris deep brown, feet grey, bill black. Wing 81 to 83, 

 tail about 85, metatarsus 29, culmen nearly 20 mm. 



Hab. Nandi Escarpment, British East Africa, 6500 to 8000 

 feet above the sea. Several adult and young males sent by 

 Mr. William Doherty. 



Obs. " This fine bird, which I dedicate to its discoverer, is 

 somewhat similar to Laniarius quadricolor , but differs in 

 many points. The forehead is crimson instead of green, there 

 is no yellow line from the bill to above the eye, the throat is 

 deep crimson and not scarlet, the black pectoral crescent 

 wider, the underside pure yellow, and the upper surface of a 

 much brighter and somewhat less olive-green. L. dohertyi 

 agrees rather with L. viridis in the wide pectoral black collar 

 and no green forehead, but it differs in the red instead of 

 orange forehead, in the absence of red below the black collar, 

 and in the yellow abdomen." 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild further showed a specimen 

 of Phasianus mongolicus which had been sent to Europe 

 alive, along with several others, from Yarkand. It was 

 remarkable for the absence of the white collar. Another 

 male at present alive at Tring had the collar only partly 

 developed, as in Ph. mongolicus semitorquatus. If these 

 birds all came from the same place, the latter form must be 

 considered only as an aberration. 



The Hon. W. Rothschild also exhibited an apparently 

 hermaphrodite specimen of Phasianus reevesi. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a specimen of a new form of 

 Thickhead, which he described as follows : — 



Pachycephala tianduana, n. sp. 



This new form belongs to the same group as Pachy- 

 cephala leucocjaster (1875), P. arctttorquis (1883), and 

 P. meeki (1898), which should evidently all be treated as 

 subspecies of one form, as well as the new P. tianduana. 

 This latter resembles in the male sex P. meeki perhaps more 

 than the other forms. It differs from P. meeki from Rossel 

 Island in its slightly paler upperside, longer wing, cream- 



