Vol. xxv.] 28 



This species appears to be a Parisoma, and to be most 

 nearly allied to P. orientale, Reichenow, but is altogether 

 darker slaty-grey, and white on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts. It is further distinguished by lacking the white 

 margins to the innermost secondaries, and by the absence of 

 white at the end of the tail. 



Pedilorhynchus brevirostris, sp. n. 



Adult female. Slate-colour above, light grey beneath, with 

 the throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white; 

 and the under wing-coverts greyish-white. Iris dark brown ; 

 bill black ; feet bluish-slate-colour. 



Culmen 10 mm. ; wing 74; tail 58 ; tarsus 17. 



Hab. Cameroon. 



Type of the species : No. 31 77. ? ad. Assobam, Bumba 

 River, 8th Dec, 1908. 



Obs. The second primary is shorter than the eighth, and 

 the bill is not slender; thus the species comes in Reichenow's 

 genus Pedilorhynchus. This bird is decidedly larger than 

 P. camerunensis, it has more white on the underparts, but has 

 no white whatever on the lores ; the bill is shorter, narrower, 

 and deeper — i. e., less flattened than in P. camerunensis. 



Mr. P. F. Bunyard exhibited a partial albino of the Gar- 

 ganey (Querquedula circia), which had been procured in 

 Leadsnhall Market ; it was the property of Mr. Castang. 



Mr. M. J. Nicoll sent a note calling attention to a 

 mistake which had been made in a former number of the 

 ' Bulletin' [xxiii. p. 93 (1909)]. He had exhibited an 

 example of the Half-collared Flycatcher (Muscicapa semi- 

 torquata, Homeyer), which he had procured at Giza on the 

 14th April, 1909. Owing to a mistake, the name of the bird 

 had been entered in the MS. as M. collaris, which is a regular 

 visitor to Egypt during the spring migration. 



This error had already been corrected in a letter to ' The 

 Ibis' (1909, p. 714). 



