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black, and the middle pair of tail-featliers as well as the outer 
webs of the two following pairs are mostly grey with indistinct 
blackish vermiculations and cross-bars. Iris lemon-yellow ; 
bill lemon-yellow, black at the tip ; legs lemon-yellow. 
Total length about 14*5 inches, culmen from feathers on 
forehead to tip 1*4, wing 8*6, tail 4*9, tarsus 3*4. 
Hab. Lahej, S. Arabia. 
Mr. Grant further exhibited the types of the 11 new 
species discovered by Mr. H. Weld-Blundell and Lord Lovat 
during their recent expedition through Southern Abyssinia. 
Mr. Weld-Blundell and Lord Lovat had described the new 
species as follows :— 
1. Oriolus meneliki, sp. n. 
Adult. Most nearly allied to 0. monachus, Grn., from which 
it may be at once distinguished by having the bill jet-black ; 
the secondary wing-coverts and outer row of median coverts 
margined with yellow ; and the third, fourth, and fifth pairs 
of tail-feathers with a strongly marked black sub-terminal 
band. “ Iris brown ; bill black ; legs slate/’ Total length 
about lOO inches, culmen IT, wing 5*6, tail 4*0, tarsus 095. 
Hab. Burka, Abyssinia: 6th January, 1899. 
2. Lusciniola abyssinica, sp. n. 
Adult male. Allied to L. thoracic a (Blyth) and L. man- 
dellii (Brooks), but having the upper parts of a darker and 
richer brown, tinged with red on the lower back and rump; the 
buff-coloured chest is separated from the white of the throat 
by a fairly well-marked band of blackish spots; the sides of 
the body and flanks are dull rusty brown, and the under tail- 
coverts uniform dull rust-colour. First primary two-thirds 
the length of the second, which is about equal to the tenth ; 
fourth, fifth, and sixth sub-equal and longest. Iris brown ; 
upper mandible and extremity of lower blackish horn, rest 
of under mandible whitish ; legs light horn-colour. Total 
length about 6*0 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 2T, tail 2’4, 
tarsus 0*8. 
Hab. Lake Chercher, Abyssinia: 12th January, 1899, 
