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Mr. R. B. Sharpe on two new 
ings on the wings and tail are the same as in the adults; hut 
the colours of both are browner. 
Besides the localities given by Count Salvador!, the Mu¬ 
seum possesses examples from Penang ( Wallace ) and Bang¬ 
kok (Conrad). 
69. Numenius uropygialis. 
a. “No. 7. Bruit, Nov. 30, 1873. Iris chocolate; legs 
lead-blue; bill brown.” 
70. Butorides javanica (Horsf.); Salvad. l.c. p. 351. 
a . “No. 172. $ ad. Sibu, Nov. 13, 1873. Iris bright yel¬ 
low ; legs light greenish ; bill dark greenish.” 
b. “$juv. Sibu, Nov. 1873. Iris bright yellow ; legs yel¬ 
lowish green; bill greenish black.” 
c. “ 6 juv. Sibu, Nov. 1874. Legs bright yellowish green, 
darker on the tarsus and the toes.” 
71. Tringa albescens, Temm.; Sharpe & Dresser, B. Eur. 
pt. xii. 
Actodromas albescens, Salvad. 1. c. p. 323. 
a, b. “ No. 22. £ . Matu beach, May 8,1874. Iris brown.” 
These beautiful little Stints are in full summer-plumage, 
and have the appearance of miniature Sanderlings. 
72. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.); Salvad. l.c. p. 326. 
a. “No. 58. $ . Sibu Island, Oct. 20, 1874. Iris choco¬ 
late; legs pale lead-grey.” 
VI .—Descriptions of two new Species of South-African Birds. 
By R. Bowdler Sharpe, E.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Senior As¬ 
sistant, Zoological Department, British Museum. 
My friend Mr. E. A. Barratt has recently returned to Eng¬ 
land with a small but interesting collection of birds, made in 
a district of South Africa as yet uninvestigated by the ornitho¬ 
logist. Having worked for some time in the Transvaal, he 
proceeded to the Lydenberg district, and collected parti¬ 
cularly in the neighbourhood of the Macamac goldfields 
here, on the western slope of the Drakenberg mountains, he 
