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3 02 Bulletin of the British 
Mr. A. S. Meek at Collingwood Bay, in the northern portion 
of British New Guinea, were laid on the table. 
Mr. E. Hautert described a new species of Weaver- 
Finch from Equatorial Africa as follows :— 
Pytelia ansorgei, sp. n. 
cJ ad. Upper surface yellowish olive, rather greener on 
the wings; head black; quills blackish, externally olive- 
green ; tail-feathers black, the outer ones rather more 
greyish black, the central feathers edged with green towards 
the base ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dark grey, 
the sides of the chest yellowish olive; under wing-coverts 
and inner margins of quills white. 
Hab. Wemo River, Torn, Uganda Protectorate [Dr. 
Ansorge ). 
Obs. The nearest ally is apparently Pytelia sharper , but 
the black head and other differences in the plumage easily 
distinguish this new species. 
Mr. Hartert also pointed out that, although Dr. Bowdler 
Sharpe was undoubtedly right in recognizing three forms of 
small Mehttophagi in Africa, in contrast to the opinion of 
Mr. Dresser with respect to M. pusillus and its allies, there 
could be no doubt that the former author had misapplied the 
name of M. cyanostictus, Cab., in the f Catalogue of Birds/ 
The bird called M. meridionalis by Dr. Sharpe was in fact 
the true M. cyanostictus of Cabanis, as Mr. Hartert had 
ascertained from a careful comparison of the original de¬ 
scription and from a personal examination of the type in the 
Berlin Museum. He therefore proposed for the East African 
bird, M. cyanostictus, Sharpe et auct. (nec Cabanis), the 
amended name of 
MeLITTOPHAGUS SHARPE I. 
Further notes on these species of Bee-eater would be t 
published in an early part of the ‘Novitates Zoologicae/ 
Air. F. D. Godman forwarded the descriptions of two 
apparently new species of Peruvian birds :— 
