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from gape 37, culmen 32; rostrum from nostrils 215 ; 

 tarsus 44. 



Hab. Dutch New Guinea, but exact locality unknown. 



This specimen, like most of the fine new Birds of Paradise 

 from this region, was purchased from the natives by the traders 

 employed by Mr. van Renesse van Duivenbode. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a specimeu of the Red- 

 throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), which had been sent to him 

 by Mr. L. A. Curtis Edwards, of St. Leonard's-on-Sea. The 

 specimen was obtained in a garden at Ninfield, in Sussex, on 

 the 26th of November, 1901, and, on dissection, hud proved 

 to be a female. It was in_very perfect plumage and was 

 evidently a young bird which had just completed its first 

 moult. 



Mr. Saunders also exhibited, on behalf of the Hon. Charles 

 Rothschild, a specimen of the American Blue-bird (Sialia 

 sialis), which had been picked up in a dying condition at 

 Oundle on 6th of December, 1901. Mr. Saunders believed 

 that this must have been an escaped individual, as the species 

 was not unfrequently sent alive to England. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe described two new species of East- 

 African birds as follows : — 



ClCHLADUSA RUFIPENNIS, U. Sp. 



C. similis C. guttatce, sed paullo minor et remigibus extus 

 Isetius rufis distinguenda. Long. tot. 6'5 poll., culm. 

 06, alae 3.2, caudse 3 - 0, tarsi 1*0. 

 Hab. Coast-region of E. Africa (Lamu, &c). 



CHLOROPETA KENYA, n. Sp. 



C. icterina (nee Sundew), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 608. 

 Similis C. natalensi, sed notaeo magis viridescenti-olivaceo, 

 pileo et regione parotica dorso concoloribus. Long. tot. 

 4*8 poll., culm. - 65, alee 2*3, caudse 2*3, tarsi 0'9o. 

 Hab. Mt. Kenya (H. J. Mackinder : typus in Mus. Brit.). 

 Obs. When in Stockholm last August, Dr. Sharpe ex- 

 amined the type of SundevalFs C. icterina, which proved to 

 be only the young of C. natalensis, aud a MS. note by 



