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Mr. Boyd Alexander described a new species of Chi or o- 
dyta from the Zambesi river as follows :— 
Chlorodyta neglecta, sp. n. 
Similis C. flavidce ex terra Hamarensi, sed uropygio et inter- 
scapulio concoloribus, genis, gutture toto, et sub- 
alaribus albis, minime flavis, subcaudalibus albis, nec 
flavis, et tibiis grisescenti-albis, distinguenda. 
Hub. 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. 
Adidt. Closely allied to S. 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. moesta 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 07 inch of the extremity. 
Total length 6’5 inches, culmen 0*78, wing 3*7, tail 2*45, 
tarsus 0*95. 
Hab. Fao, Persian Gulf (TV. D. Camming). 
Mr. W. B. 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. 
Mr. Grant also exhibited and made remarks on some of 
the more remarkable new birds obtained by the late Mr. John 
Whitehead on the Five-finger Mountains in the interior 
of Hainan. Most of these, such as the splendid Silver 
Pheasant ( Germans whiteheadi) and the new Night-Heron 
(.Nycticorax magnified), had already been described in the 
