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were generally not quite so light in colour as the typical 

 M. afr. athi, but they could not be separated from them. 



The Tring Museum had received in exchange from the 

 Lisbon Museum a specimen of Mir afr a angolensis of Bocage, 

 from Caconda in Benguela. This was a very interesting 

 form, with a rather short wing, like M. africana transvaalensis, 

 very sandy rufous above, and with the central rectrices very 

 broadly edged with rufous, the lateral rectrices with the outer 

 web and half of the inner one buffy white. This coloration 

 of the tail distinguished M. africana angolensis from M. afr. 

 transvaalensis. 



There occurred, however, another form in Angola as 

 well, apparently confined to the coast. It was above brownish 

 grey, much more greyish than any of the other allied forms. 

 Only the outer webs of the lateral rectrices were buffy white, 

 and there was no rufous in the tail at all. This was pro- 

 bably HartlauVs M. occidentalis, described from Gaboon. 

 There were specimens of it in the Tring Museum from 

 Catumbela and Quissange in Benguela. 



Mr. Hartert also described a new form of a Short-toed 

 Lark, which he called 



Calandrella pispoletta canariensis, subsp. nov. 



It differed from typical C. pispoletta, C. minor, and C. 

 boetica, which were all sub-species of one species, in its rufous- 

 brown upper surface and small size, the bill being some- 

 what slenderer, as in C. batica, though Calandrella pispoletta 

 minor from North Africa was apparently its nearest ally, 

 as regarded colour of plumage. The chest was more heavily 

 spotted than in C. minor, but not quite so largely as in 

 C. bcetica. The Tring Museum had a series of the new form 

 collected on the island of Tenerife by Dr. Curt Floericke. 

 Type $ ad., Laguna, 7. 3. 1901. Wing 83 (?) to 88 ( tf ) mm. 



Mr. Hartert also gave some details of his recent trip to 

 Western Morocco. He exhibited a skin of the rare Comatibis 

 eremita (L.) which he had himself observed and shot, and a 

 specimen of the southern form of the Wood- Warbler. This 



