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" Traversia lyalli, sp. nov. 



" Male. Above dark brownish olive-yellow, each feather 

 with a brownish-black border. A narrow distinct yellow 

 superciliary line. Wings and tail umber-brown, the inner 

 webs darker; wing-coverts like back. Chin, throat, and 

 breast chrome-yellow, each feather slightly edged with 

 greyish brown. Flanks, abdomen, and vent pale brown, 

 centre of feathers paler. 



''Female. Upper surface umber-brown, each feather 

 bordered with very dark brown ; wings and tail similar. 

 Under surface buffy grey, the feathers edged with pale brown. 



"Total length about 4 inches, culmen 0*6, wing TS to 

 1*9, tail 0'8, but mvich concealed; tarsus 0"75, middle toe 

 0"65, hind toe without claw 0*5. 



"Habitat. Stephens Island, New Zealand. Discovered 

 by Mr. D. Lyall, lighthouse-keeper, and sent to me by 

 Mr. Henry H. Travers." 



Mr. Rothschild also sent for exhibition one of the two 

 typical specimens of Craspedophora mantoui, Oust. He 

 wished to call attention to the fact that it agrees in the minutest 

 details with Mr. J. Biittikofer's recently described C. bruyni, 

 and that there could be no doubt of the two species being 

 identical. C mantoui was admirably figured by Keulemans 

 in the ' Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle,' 

 Paris (vol. iv. pi. 15). 



Dr. A. B. Meyer sent a diagnosis, accompanied by a 

 coloured sketch, of a remarkable new genus and species of 

 Bird of Paradise, which would be described later on by hiiu 

 in detail and figured elsewhere : — 



Pteridophora, gen. nov. Paradiseidarum. 

 (77x6/3/9 = filix, ^6peiv = ferre.) 

 Capite utrinque scapo paradoxo, valde elongato, filicis flabelli 

 uniseriati instar transformato, lobis plurimis, corio simi- 

 libus, munito. Rostro turdino, recto, angusto : alis 

 brevibus, remige primo dimidiam partem secundi supe- 

 rante, tertio, quarto, quinto, sexto longioribus, quarto 

 longissimo : Cauda raediocri, sequali : pedibus medio- 

 cribus. Statura minore quam in genere Lophorhina. 



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