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triangular and rather wedge-shaped shield of metallic bluish- 
green feathers extending from between the eyes to the 
occiput. 
“ 'fhere is no white anywhere on the head, and the colour 
of the latter is of the same deep glossy purple as on the rest 
of the upper surface, not glossed with oily brown as in the • 
three allied species. The first and second primaries are less 
abruptly emarginate than in the allied forms. 
“ In the specimen described there is only one head-plume 
on each side instead of three, and although Mr. Ernst Hartert 
and I have both examined most carefully the feathers of the 
head we have been unable to find traces of any more ; but 
until a large series arrives, or we find a specimen with more of 
these ornamental plumes, it cannot be definitely determined 
that this is a good and real character of the species. Wing 
150 mm., tail 115 mm., tarsus 38 mm., culmen 34 mm. 
“ Hab. Dutch New Guinea (Van Renesse van Duiveu- 
bode)."^ 
Mr. Rothschild also exhibited two rare birds from the 
Ambernoh River, in Dutch New Guinea : Nasiterna bruijni, 
one of the smallest of Parrots, and Chenurhamphus grayi, a 
very rare Flycatcher, of which Wallace obtained a single 
specimen (the type) at Sorong. 
Dr. Bowulek Sharpe described three apparently new 
species of birds obtained by Lord Delamere in British East 
Africa : — 
Spizocokys athensis, sp. n. 
$ . 8. conirostri affinis, sed valde diversa : suprk alaudina, 
baud arenicolor : rostro corneo : subtus isabcllino-alba, 
maculis prsepectoralibus nigris notata : plaga nigra ad 
latera colli conspicua, sed subalaribus et primariis intus 
cinerascentibus, illis obscure arenario marginatis prie- 
cipue distiuguenda. Long. tot. 5’5 poll., culm. 0’55, 
alse 3'5, caudee 2’0, tarsi 0‘8. 
Hab. Athi River, Nov. 14, 1899. 
A further interesting discovery is a second species of the 
genus Fscudalamon of Lort Phillips (Ibis, 1898, p. 400) : — 
