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hind- neck, without any greyish tinge, but in marked contrast 

 to the uniform blackish-brown colour of the breast and vent. 

 Culmen 0'79in. (20 mm.), exposed culmen 071 (18 mm.), wing 

 3-64 (92-5 mm.), tail 2-56 (65 mm.), tarsus 118 (30 mm.). 

 Type : <J adult, 17-18. iv. (30. iv.-l. v.) 1901, Den-chu, 

 basin of the Upper Yaug-tse-kiang. Koslow coll. 



Hab. Eastern Tibet : Burkhan-Budda Mts., in the basin 

 of the Hoang-ho (Przewalski, Roborowski) and the basin of 

 the Upper Yang-tse-kiang [Koslow). 



Dr. Bianchi exhibited specimens of the most nearly related 

 forms — i. e., C. sordidus, Gould, C. middendorffi, Suschkin, 

 1904, and C. saturatus, Dresser, 1895 = C. bilkewitschi, 

 Zarudni, 1902= C. kiborti, Madarasz, 1903. 



Dr. Bianchi also exhibited twelve authentic eggs of the 

 Knot [Tringa canutus), together with nestlings, which had 

 been procured on the Taimyr Peninsula and on the New 

 Siberian Islands. In every instance the old birds had been 

 obtained, thus rendering the identification certain. 



Captain H. Walton exhibited and described examples of 

 five new species procured during the recent expedition to 

 Lhasa : — 



1. Turtur lhasjE, n. sp. 



T. similis T. orientali, sed tectricibus alarum obscure brun- 

 neis, palbdo griseo vel rufescenti-fulvo anguste margi- 

 natis (minime late rufo) ; interscapulio et colli lateribus 

 cineraceis, nee vinaceo-bruimeis ; corporis lateribus 

 pallide griseis, nee vinaceis. Long. tot. 13'4 poll., 

 rostii a rictu 0'95, alas 8'0, caudae 5 - 9, tarsi 1*15. 

 [No. 2023 £ .] 



Iride pallide rubra, orbite coccineo : pedibus coccineis : 

 rostro saturate purpurascente, versus apicem corneo. 

 Hab. Lhasa, Tibet, Aug. 30, 1904. 



2. ClNCLUS YOUNGHUSBANDI, n. Sp. 



? . Simiiis C. sordido, sed saturatior : plaga gutturali haud 

 definita; gutture, pisepectore et pectore toto brun- 

 nescentibus ; abdomine f uscescenti-brunneo ; hypo- 

 chondriis subcaudalibusque saturate schistaceis : rostro 

 nigro; pedibus saturate brunneis; iride saturate brunnea. 



