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Ornithologists’ Club. 
October number of f The Ibis ’ for 1899 (pp. 584-587), 
but in that paper the description of a fine new species of 
Urocissa had been omitted. Mr. Grant now proposed to 
describe it as 
Urocissa whiteheadi, sp. n. 
Adult male and female. Head, back, fore-neck, and chest 
dark earthy brown, darkest on the ear-coverts, and shading 
into grey on the sides and flanks, and into yellowish buff on 
the middle of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts; 
feathers of the crown rounded at the extremity and edged 
with whitish brown; rump greyish brown ; upper tail-coverts 
black tipped with white; wings black, except the lesser and 
median wing-coverts, which are white, save at the base; tips 
of the primary-quills, margins of terminal half of outer 
webs of secondaries, and the tips of the greater wing-coverts 
pure white; middle tail-feathers grey, widely tipped with 
white, and with a sub-terminal black band, the outer feathers 
similarly marked, but with the white tips increasing in size 
and shaded with yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
clear yellowish white. Iris straw-colour; bill red, shading 
into brownish yellow at the base; feet dark brown. Total 
length about 18 0 inches, culmen T9, wing 8*2, tail 9*4, 
tarsus 1*95. 
Hab. Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan. 
Mr. Grant further described a new species of Thick-knee 
from Southern Arabia, obtained during the recent expedition 
undertaken by Mr. A. Blayney Percival and the late Mr. W. 
Dodson :— 
(Edicnemus dodsoni, sp. n. 
Adult male. Most nearly allied to (E. affinis (Rupp.), but 
with the ground-colour 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 
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