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Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited an example of a new species 

 of Calamocichla, ■which he characterized as follows : — 



Calamocichla cunenensis, n. sp. 

 C. supra brunneo-grisea, linea supralorali supraoculari 

 albida, auricularibus brunnescentibus; subtus albescens, 

 lateribus cinereo tinctis, subalaribus albis. Al. 76, 

 caud. 75, metatars. 26, culm. 18 mm. 



Hob. Ad flumen Cunene dictum, A. W. Eriksson coll. 

 3 iv. 1880. (Typus no. 741, Mus. Tring.) 



Obs. — A single specimen, obtained on the Cunene River, 

 April 3, 1880, by the late A. W. Eriksson, differs from 

 C. gracilirostris in its greyish, instead of rufous-brown, 

 upper surface and by the larger size. The structure is the 

 same. Mr. Hartert ventured to think that C. gracilirostris 

 and C. cunenensis were congeneric with C. brevipennis and 

 C. neiutoni. If not united with Acrocephalus, they ought 

 to be included in Calamocichla, but not in Lusciniola. 

 They are close allies of the Reed- Warblers (cf. Novitates 

 Zoologicse, 1898, p. 70). 



Mr. H. F. Witherby exhibited a specimen of Erithacus 

 gutturalis with the under surface of the body white. The 

 specimen was obtained at an altitude of about 7000 feet, 

 near Kuh-i-Dinar, in South-west Persia. In the same 

 district two or three other white-breasted specimens were 

 seen, and the bird was certainly not a different species, but 

 an aberration or variation from the ordinary type. 



Mr. Witherby further exhibited and narrated the story 

 of his finding the nest of Lusciniola neglecta, with the eggs. 



The nest was built in a Mimosa bush 3 feet from the 

 ground, on a rocky hill-side at an elevation of about 

 6600 feet, near Dasht-i-arjin, S.W. Persia. The eggs have 

 apparently not been described before. 



Mr. Witherby also exhibited some eggs of Chettusia 

 leucura taken by him near Shiraz, Persia. The eggs of this 

 bird had been described by Mr. Dresser (' Ibis/ 1902, p. 177, 



