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(Edicnemus dodsoni, sp. n. 
Adult male. Most nearly allied to CE. affinis (Riipp.), but 
with the groimd-eolour of the interscapular region largely 
mixed with greyish buff, while the deep black markings so 
conspicuous in the latter species are reduced to shaft-stripes. 
The greater and median wing-coverts are altogether greyer, 
the chest and breast more heavily streaked with brownish 
black, and the middle pair of tail-feathers as well as the outer 
webs of the two following pairs are mostly grey with indistinct 
blackish vermiculations and cross-bars. Iris lemon-yellow ; 
bill lemon-yellow, black at the tij) ; legs lemon-yellow. 
Total length about 14‘5 inches, culmen from feathers on 
forehead to tip 1’4, wing 8'6, tail 4‘9. tarsus 3'4. 
Hub. Lahej, S. Arabia. 
Mr Grant further exhibited the types of the 11 new 
species discovered by Mr. H. Weld Blundell and Loi’d Lovat 
during their recent expedition through Southern Abyssinia. 
Mr. Blundell and Lord Lovat described the new species 
as follows ; — 
1. Orioles meneliki, sp. n. 
Adult. Most nearly allied to 0. monachus, Gm., from which 
it may be at once distinguished by having the bill jet-black ; 
the secondary wing-coverts and outer row of median coverts 
margined with yellow ; and the third, fourth, and fifth pairs 
of tail-feathers with a strongly marked black sub-terminal 
band. “ Iris brown ; bill black ; legs slate.” Total length 
about lO’O inches, culmen IT, wing 5’6, tail 4'0, tarsus 0 95. 
Hub. Burka, Abyssinia: 6th January, 1899. 
2. Lusciniola abyssinica, sp. n. 
Adult male. Allied to L. thoracica (Blyth) and L. man- 
dellii (Brooks), but having the upper parts of a darker and 
richer brown tinged with red on the lower back and rump ; the 
buff-coloured chest is separated from the white of the throat 
by a fairly well-marked baud of blackish spots ; the sides of 
the body and flanks are dull rusty brown, and the under tail- 
coverts uniform dull rust-colour. First primary two-thirds 
