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Show 1900.] MR. G. A. BOULEXGER ON THE GESUS XENOTILAPIA. 3 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. Campothera abingdoni Chalcopelia afra Nisaetus pennatus Lophoaetus occipitalis Asturinula monogrammioa Astur poiyzonoides Circus ranivorus Ardea purpurea Phalacrocorax lucidus Larus cirrhocephalus Sarcidiornis melanonota Porphyrio alleni Turnix lepurana Francolinus coqui Lobivanellus lateralis Pavoncella pugnax Rhynchrea capensis Cursorius teinmincki No. in Shelley's List. 1812 1895 2025 2030 2046 2060 2082 2123 2149 2153 2154 2205 2255 2297 2324 2346 2441 2445 2484 2501 2517 Locality (where stated). Buwa. Kotakota. Liwonde. Liwonde. Liwonde. Liwonde. Liwonde. Kotakota. Kotakota. Kotakota. Kotakota. Liwonde. Kotakota. Katunga. Buwa and Katunga. Liwonde and Katuuga. Buwa and Katunga. Mkukula. Buwa. Mr. Sclater remarked that the route from Lake Nyasa to Mpeseni's country and Fort Jameson would be found described in an article by Mr. B. I. Money and Dr. Kellett Smith in the ' Geographical Journal' for 1897 (vol. x. p. 146). Capt. Shelley had informed Mr. Sclater that examples of the following 3 species had not previously been obtained in Nyasaland, but it should be remarked that Fort Jameson itself, being over the water-parting, was just outside the border of the B. C. A. Protectorate:- 1. Parus afer Gm.: Gadow, Cat. B. viii. p. 39. Not previously recorded from the north of the Zambesi. 2. Smilorhis sowerbyi Sharpe, Ibis, 1898, p. 572, pi. xii. fig. 1. Originally described from Mashunaland. 3. Phalacrocorax: lucidus (Licht.): Grant, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 351. A. communication was read from Mr. G. A. Boulenger pointing out that an unfortunate mistake, for which he was in no way responsible, had been made in printing the characters of the genus Xenotilapia in part 4 of vol. xv. of the Society's Transactions, lately issued. The characters of the genus Xenotilapia (page 92) should stand as follows :- XENOTILAPIA, g. n. Body moderately elongate ; scales ctenoid; three lateral lines. Mouth small,very protractile; upper jaw with two series of minute 1* |