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lemon-yellow. Total length about 250 mm. j wing 155^7 ; 

 tail 75 ; tarsus 43. In P. carunculata the wing measures 

 170-180 mm. and the tail 167. 

 Hab. Utakwa River. 



Type in the British Museum : $ vix adult. Camp No. 6 c, 

 5500 ft., 25.ii.13. 



Obs. In the type specimen only the middle pair of tail- 

 feathers are those of the adult plumage and are much shorter 

 than the five outer pairs, which measure about 92 mm. This 

 species is intermediate between P, carunculata and P. brevi- 

 cauda Roths. & Hartert, from Mount Goliath. The latter 

 shows the same peculiarity as the present species, the tail in 

 the young being much longer than in the adult. 



Mr. C. Bo den Kloss offered a few remarks on the 

 distribution of some of the species, and pointed out that he 

 believed one of the Pigeons, Gymnophaps albertisi, occurred 

 from the coast region to the highest ground, though no 

 example was procured in the latter locality. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S., exhibited 

 two clutches of eggs with an adult pair and nestlings of 

 Rhamphocorys clot-bey (Bonap.) and one clutch of eggs of 

 Erythrospiza githaginea zedlitzi Neum., all from Am Sefra, 

 Sud-Oranais, Algeria. He also exhibited a remarkable 

 clutch of eggs of the Woodchat- Shrike, Lanius senator 

 senator Linn., from Sa'ida, Province of Oran, Algeria. It was 

 noteworthy, firstly, on account of the broad belt of heavy 

 spots round the middle of the eggs instead of at the broad 

 end, and, secondly, in that the clutch consisted of seven eggs 

 — a very rare occurrence. 



He further exhibited examples of three species of birds 

 new to the Algerian fauna : — 



1. Garrulus glandarius whitakeri Hart., from the 

 forests between Tlemcen and Sebdou. This bird had hitherto 

 been recorded from Tangier only, and a specimen from that 



