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ings on the wings and tail are the same as in the adults; but 
the colours of both are browner. 
Besides the localities given by Count Salvadori, 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. Buroripes savanica (Horsf.); Salvad. /.c. p. 351. 
a. “No.172. Qad. Sibu, Nov. 18, 1873. Iris bright yel- 
low ; legs light greenish ; bill dark greenish.” 
b. “9 juv. Sibu, Nov. 1873. Iris bright yellow ; legs yel- 
lowish green ; bill greenish black.” 
c. “3 juv. Sibu, Nov. 1874. Legs bright yellowish green, 
darker on the tarsus and the toes.” 
71. TRINGA ALBESCENS, Temm.; Sharpe & Dresser, B. Eur. 
pt. xu. 
Actodromas albescens, Salvad. l. c. p. 328. 
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. Bowpier Suarpre, I.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Senior As- 
sistant, Zoological Department, British Museum. 
My friend Mr. F. 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 
