Ornithologists' Club. 145 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited eggs of two species of Macaw, 

 Ara militaris and A. ararauna, which had been laid in the 

 aviaries of Mr. II. H. Sharland, F.Z.S , at La Fontaine, 

 Tours, the former in June 1890 and the latter in July 1891. 

 They were pure white and of the usual glossy texture of 

 other eggs of the Psittacidae. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited a skin of Wilson's Phalarope 

 {Plialaropus wilsoni), belonging to a collection of skins which 

 had been recently received from the Falkland Islands by the 

 University College Museum, Dundee, and had been kindly 

 submitted to him for examination by Prof. d'Arcy Thompson. 

 This was the first record of the occurrence of this bird in the 

 Falkland Islands, although it had been met with by Durnford 

 in 1876 as far south as the Chupat Valley in Patagonia (Scl. 

 & Huds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 281), and was also known to occur 

 in Chili. 



Mr. J. J. Pearson -exhibited an egg-blowing apparatus, 

 with which he had obtained the best results during his recent 

 visit to Iceland. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, sent the following descrip- 

 tions of a new Parrot and a new Bird of Paradise, which he 

 intended to describe in detail and to figure elsewhere : — 



Microglossus salvadorii, sp. n. 



Fcem.? Forma M. aterrimi (Gra.), sed primulaceo-flavus : 

 subtus auguste, supra late nigro fasciatus : alis et cauda 

 reliqua plus minusve nigro irroratis : capite cristaque 

 viridi-atris, irregulariter fasciatim pallidissime flavo 

 signatis et maculatis : maxilla fusca, apice pallido, 

 mandibula albescente : pedibus nigris. Long. tot. c. 

 550 millim., al. 870, caud. 275, crist. 130, rostr. culm. 

 c. 75, max. alt. 40, mand. alt. 36^ max. lat. ad has. 26, 

 mand. lat. ad bas. 36, tars. 20. 



Hab. Nova Guinea, in montibus Arfak. 



Parotia carols, sp. n. 



Mas. Similis P. sexpenni (Bodd,), sed multo minor et ab ea. 



prseterea pileo regioneque periophthalmica nitide saturate 



ochraceo-aureis, laterum plumis elongatis, albis, interiiis 



castaneis vel nigris, et guise plumis piliformibns nitide 



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