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Caprimulgus torridus, Lort Phil., $ . Dibbit. 

 Campothera nubica (Gra.), <$ ? . Bera, which were re- 

 markable for their small size and pale coloration. 



Mr. Witherby also exhibited a specimen of an apparently 

 undescribed species of Lark, which he characterized as 

 follows : — 



Certhilauda somalica, n. sp. 



The long and perfectly straight hind claw and the long 

 bastard primary, together with the character of the bill, 

 indicates that this bird belongs to the genus Certhilauda. In 

 size it is intermediate between C. rufula(V.) and. C. capensis 

 (Bodd.) ; the bill is also intermediate in length, but it is 

 slightly stouter than in either of them. The upper parts of the 

 bird are of a pale pinkish chestnut, the feathers being margined 

 with dirty white and tipped with black on the upper wing- 

 and tail-coverts. The breast and chin are huffish white ; the 

 upper breast and throat the same streaked with reddish 

 brown ; the flanks pinkish; the abdomen white ; the under 

 tail-coverts white with broad dark brown mesial stripes ; the 

 under wing-coverts pale pink. The primaries are brown, 

 broadly margined with chestnut; the secondaries dusky 

 reddish brown, margined narrowly with huffish white. The 

 tail in length and general coloration is most like that 

 of Certhilauda capensis, but the outer webs of the outer pair 

 of feathers are white, and in the next pair the webs are 

 margined with white ; the central pair are broadly margined 

 with pale rust-colour and tipped with white. 



Wing 95 mm., culmen 25 mm., tarsus 34 mm., hind claw 

 14 mm. 



S . Dibbit, Somaliland (about 6° 50' North latitude, 47° 30' 

 East longitude). March 11, 1903. A. E. Hamerton (col- 

 lector). 



Captain G. E. Shelley sent the following notes on the 

 nomenclature of certain Fringillidce : — 



u The new genus Neospiza (cf. Salvad. Ace. R. Sc. Torino, 

 1903, p. 26) for the reception of Amblyospiza concolor, Bocage, 

 appears to me to be unnecessary, as the bird in my opinion 



