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Obs. In all'other respects the skins which I have examined 

 are similar to M. grisola, bat the characters mentioned above 

 appear to be sufficient to separate them from one another. 



Mr. Bannerman* also sent for exhibition an example of a 

 rare Warbler, Sylviella gaikivari, Sharpe, the type-specimen 

 of which, a male, had been obtained by Dr. Donaldson 

 Smith at Ania (Ennia), N. Somaliland. The present example, 

 obtained further east at Burao by Mr. Bury, was an adult 

 female in freshly moulted plumage, and showed the characters 

 of the species much better than the type-specimen, which 

 was in worn plumage. 



Mr. C. E. Hellmayr sent the following description of a 

 new species of Puff-bird, which lie proposed to call 



BlJCCO NOANAMiE, sp. n. 



Adult male. Upper part of the head and nape dark ashy; 

 back and upper wing-coverts dark sepia-brown, each feather 

 with a distinct, pale rufescent apical margin; upper tail- 

 coverts with rather brighter rufescent cross-hands and 

 edges ; remiges and rectrices dusky, narrowly fringed with 

 rufesceut-buff along the outer web. Narrow frontal band 

 and broad superciliary stripe, reaching as far as the posterior 

 angle of the eye, soiled white; lores ashy-black; cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of the neck dark ashy, some of the 

 feathers edged with pale greyish. Malar region, chin, and 

 throat white; chest dull brownish-black, most of the 

 feathers showing, on their concealed basal portion, a white 

 median spot or streak, only to be seen when the feathers are 

 raised ; rest of the belly white, washed with ochreous-buff and 

 marked with coarse blackish spots or cross-bands ; under 

 tail-coverts uniform buff. Axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts deep buff mixed with blackish. Inner webs of the 

 remiges broadly edged with buff. Iris red; bill black; feet 

 grey. 



Bill 28 mm. ; wing 81 ; tail 66. 



Hab. Valley <>C the San Juan River, province of Choco, 

 \\ estern ( lolombia. 



