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Pheasant said to have been shot in Hertfordshire^ and 
belonging to Mr. Cecil Braithwaite. The second was a very 
dark-coloured hen bird, supposed to be a hybrid between a 
Black Grouse {Tttrao tetrix) and a female Phasianus colchicus. 
Mr. Tegetmeier regarded it as a dark variety of an ordinary 
hen Pheasant. 
Mr. Boyd Alexander described a new species of Chloro- 
dyta from the Zambesi River as follows : — 
Chlorodyta neglecta, sp. n. 
Similis C. flavidoe ex terra Damarensi, sed uropygio et inter- 
scapulio concoloribus, genis guttureque toto et sub- 
alaribus albis, minime fiavis, subcaudalibus albis, nee 
flavis, et tibiis grisescenti-albis, distinguenda. 
Hab. S.E. Africa to Mozambique. 
Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker sent the description of a new 
species of Chat in the British Museum collection. The bird 
had been wrongly identified as S. moesta, Licht. He there- 
fore proposed to call it 
“ Saxicola cummingi, sp. n. 
'■‘Adult. Closely allied to 8. xanthoprymna, H. & E.^ but 
distinguished by having the basal part of 'the tail-feathers 
rusty red like the upper tail -coverts, instead of white. From 
S. mcesta to be at once distinguished by having the top of 
the head and nape brownish grey like the back, the rump 
and upper tail-coverts rusty and the rufous on the outer 
tail-feathers extending to within 0'7 inch of the extremity. 
Total length 6’5 inches, culmen 0'78, wing 3'7, tail 2‘45, 
tarsus O' 95. 
“Hub. Fao, Persian Gulf {W. D. Camming).”^ 
Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant exhibited some of the more 
interesting birds obtained by Major Wingate during his 
recent expedition from the Yang-tze-kiang through Southern 
China to Bhamo. One of the most striking of these was 
a fine adult pair of Merganser squamatus (Gould), previously 
known only from an immature male described in 1864. 
