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Andes, iuto the valley of the Cauca. This was ascended, 

 and, passing through Popayan, Messrs. Goodfellow and 

 Hamilton had entered the Republic of Ecuador at Tulcan, 

 proceeding thence to Quito, where a lengthened stay was 

 made. From Quito excursions were effected to Pichincha, 

 and to the low country on the Pacific coast near Santo 

 Domingo. Leaving Quito on March 1st last year, Messrs. 

 Goodfellow and Hamilton crossed the Andes to the upper 

 waters of the Napo, and descended that river in canoes to 

 Yquitos on the Amazons, in Peru, whence the journey home 

 was effected by steamer. 



Mr. Goodfellow was preparing an account of the birds 

 collected during this remarkable journey for ' The Ibis.' In 

 the meanwhile Mr. Sclater called attention to two noticeable 

 specimens. One of these was an example of a male 

 Fruit-Crow [Gymnoderus fmtidus) in fully adult plumage. 

 Mr. Sclater exhibited a coloured drawing, taken from the 

 fresh specimen by Mr. Hamilton, of the head of this bird, 

 showing the extraordinary development of the pale blue 

 wattles of the neck, which had never been correctly repre- 

 sented or described, and were so different in appearance from 

 ordinary specimens of this bird that Mr. Sclater had, at first, 

 been inclined to regard the Ecuador bird as a distinct species. 

 The second bird exhibited was an example of the little-known 

 Myiadestes cor acinus Berlepsch, from the forests of the Upper 

 Napo. 



No. LXXI. (April 30th, 1900). 



The seventieth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 25th of April, 1900. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Forty Members and thirteen guests were present. 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott described the following apparently 

 new or hitherto undetected species of birds from South 

 America. Some of these birds had been procured by 



