274 Bulletin of the British 



No. XXIII. (Jan. 29th, 1895.) 



The twenty-second meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 16th of January, 1895. 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — E. Bidwell, W. E. De Winton,. 

 E. Hargitt, St. George Mtvart, F.R.S., E. G. B. Meade- 

 Waldo, F. Menteith Ogilvie, C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pear- 

 son, F. Penrose, T. Digby Pigott, C.B., Howard Saunders 

 {Treasurer) , R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), H. Seebohm, 

 H. H. Slater, W. B. Tegetmeier, C. A. Wright. 



Visitors : Col. Adamson, J. B. Bilderdeck, C. Poole, 

 C. B. Rickett, F. C. Selous. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer sent the following description of the 

 hitherto unknown male o{ Amblyurnis inornata (Schl.), from 

 Karoon, west of the Arfak Mountains : — 



" Mas. Supra colore brunneo saturatiore quam femina 



subterque ferrugineo tinctus, subalaribus ferrugineis : 



alis caudaque subter suspectu quodam flavo-olivaceis : 



scapis flavescentibus : capitis crista sincipiti tantum- 



modo inserta, transversa, flabelliformi, longissima, 80 



millim. : colore quo Amblyornis subalaris, Sharpe, sed 



plumis lateralibus marginibus brunneis nee nigris. 



Long. al. 134 millim., rostri culm. 25, caud. 98. 



" Dr. Sharpe recently established [vide antea p. 273] the 



genus Xatithochlamys for the tw^o known crested species of 



Amblyornis, assuming that the male of A. inornata (Schl.) 



was without a crest, as, indeed, has been generally believed 



to be the case, though Dr. Sharpe himself once rightly 



doubted this fact. The specimen before me, having just 



reached the Dresden Museum, leaves no doubt that it really 



is the male of A. inornata, of which it has happened that 



only young males or adult ones not in nuptial dress and 



females have been known since the year 1871, when it was 



first described, a fate which it shared to a certain degree 



with Drepananax bruijni (Oust.). The genus Xantho- 



chlamys, therefore, must again give way to Amblyornis.'* 



