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AMMOMANES CINCTURA ZARUDNYI, Subsp. nOV. 



Differs from the very reddish cinnamon-sandy typical A. 

 cinctura from the Cape Verd Islands and the very pale sandy 

 A. cinctura arenicolor of Northern Africa by its dark earthy 

 greyish upper surface. The underside is not almost white 

 as in A. cinctura arenicolor, nor so reddish as in typical 

 A. cinctura, but somewhat creamy buff, with very distinct 

 striations on the chest. The ear-coverts are very dark, the 

 middle of the throat strongly contrasting with the breast, 

 being almost white. The feet are apparently (judged from 

 dry skins) darker than in the other two forms. Young 

 specimens are paler and thus resemble somewhat more the 

 African form. 



Ammomanes cinctura zarudnyi inhabits Eastern Persia. 

 Type : ? ad. 8.xi.l900. Mudjnabad, E. Persia, collected 

 by Mr. Zarudny, in whose honour it is named. (Five speci- 

 mens in the Tring Museum.) 



Obs. This new form differs as much from A. cinctura. 

 cinctura and A. cinctura arenicolor as Ammomanes phceni- 

 curoides from Sindh and the Punjab differs from A. deserti 

 and A. deserti algeriensis. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert further exhibited a pair of the rare 

 Humming-bird 



Ch;etocercus burmeisteri, Scl. 



This bird was hitherto only known from a single specimen, 

 the type, in the Museum at Buenos Ayres. It was only 

 known in Europe from the water-colour sketch sent over by 

 the late Dr. Burmeister, which had been reproduced on 

 pi. xi. of Sclater and Hudson's ( Argentine Ornithology/ 

 The figure and description (taken from the original type) 

 were fairly, but not quite, correct. There seemed to be two 

 pairs of short central metallic-green rectrices, not two only, 

 thus making up the number of rectrices to fen. In the 

 figure the underside; was too whitish, the sides being metallic 

 green, and there were also metallic-green centres to the 

 feathers of the upper throat, which was crossed at the chin by 

 united glittering crimson-red beard-stripes ; the brown inner 



