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On behalf of Mr. Boyd Alexander, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 exhibited examples of the following new species which had 

 been discovered by the former on the Peak of Cameroon. 

 Mr. Alexander described them as follows : — 



Francolinus camerunensis, sp. n. 



Adult female. General colour of the upperparts, including 

 the wings and tail, brown, heavily blotched and barred with 

 black and with narrow irregular shaft-streaks, cross-bars, and 

 spots of buff or rufous-buff. Crown brown, each feather 

 with a black subterminal band and a dull rufous-buff margin; 

 nape and upper mantle black, with an irregular submarginal 

 band or marking of pale buff. Throat aud cheeks soiled 

 white with dusky middles to the feathers ; ear-coverts brown 

 indistinctly barred with black ; breast, sides, and flanks black, 

 generally with two subconcentric bands of soiled white or 

 buff, the outer one being submarginal. Feathers on the 

 abdomen sandy brown with white middles. Quills dark 

 brownish-black, mottled with rufous on the outer web. 

 Naked skin round the eye, bill, and legs orange-vermilion 

 (in dry skin). 



Total length 12'25 inches ; wing 6*7 ; tail 2'5 ; tarsus 2"2. 



Hab. Peak of Cameroon, 7000 ft., 24th April, 1909. 



Obs. A second example of this remarkably distinct and 

 very rare forest-haunting Francolin was also procured, but 

 was accidentally destroyed. 



Anthus camerunensis, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Most nearly allied to A. cinnamo- 

 meus, Eiipp., but very much darker; the general colour of 

 the upperparts is black, each feather of the crown and 

 mantle being black, rather narrowly margined with dark 

 sandy-brown. 



Total length ca. 6-8 inches ; wing 36 ; tail 3*0 ; tarsus 1*0. 



Obs. In the general colour of the upperparts this species 

 closely resembles A. latistriatus, Jackson, from Kavirondo, 

 but it is easily distinguished from that species by lacking 

 the black streaks on the sides of the body. 



Hab. Peak of Cameroon, 7000 ft., 15th-17th April, 1909. 



