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and tarsus are shorter, the latter being more slender. 

 Iris yellow ; legs dull vermilion. Total length about 

 31*0 inches, culmen 6'5, wing 16*2, tail 62, under tail- 

 coverts 7*0, tarsus 6'5, middle toe without claw 3'0. 



Adult female. Like the male, but somewhat shorter and 

 with a smaller bill. Iris red ; skin round eye orange-yellow ; 

 bill vermilion, the under-part mixed with red and yellow ; 

 legs muddy-vermilion \W. Mortori], Total length about 

 30*0 inches, culmen 5*7, wing 15*6, tail 5*7, under tail- coverts 

 6*4, tarsus 5*5, middle toe without claw 2*7. 



The type of the male was recently procured at Lamag, 

 Sandakan, in May, by Mr. Graydon ; the female by Sir Hugh 

 Low, on the Mengalong River, Sarawak. 



A full description and figure of this remarkable bird will 

 appear in the April number of ' The Ibis ' for 1903. 



Mr. Grant then described a new species of Lark which 

 had apparently been overlooked : — 



MlRAFRA ZOMBiE, n. Sp. 



Mirafra fischeri, Shelley (nee Heichenow), Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 23 [Zomba and Lake Shirwa], p. 473 [lower slopes of 

 Milanji, 3000 feet] ; id. Ibis, 1898, p. 379 [Zomba plains] ; 

 id. Birds of Africa, iii. p. 43 (1902) [part.]. 



Adult male and female. Differ from the male of M. fischeri 

 in having the general colour of the upper-parts, including 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts, of a dark blackish grey, all 

 the feathers having blackish middles and dark brownish-grey 

 margins, producing a streaked appearance, very different 

 from the transversely-marked upper-parts of M. fischeri. 

 The rest of the plumage, as well as the under-parts, very 

 similar to those of M. fischeri, but the inner secondaries are 

 blackish brown, with pale margins. 



From M. buckleyi the present species may be distinguished 

 by the much darker colour of the upper-parts and by the 

 dark rufous upper tail-coverts, transversely barred with 

 blackish ; both species have the lower back and rump 

 longitudinally streaked. 



