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Dr. BowDLER Sharpe made some remarks on Canon Tris- 

 tram's paper " On tlie Use and Abuse of Generic Terms " 

 {' Ibis/ 1895, pp. 130-133) . A discussion followed, in which 

 Mr. P. L. Sclater, Dr. St. George Mivart, Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, Mr. Henry Seebohm, and Mr. H. J. Pearson took 

 part. 



Mr. Howard Saunders proposed for the smaller Noddy- 

 Terns the new generic term of 



MicRANOUs, gen. n. 



Genus simile generi ' Anous ' dicto, sed rostro longiore et 

 tenuiore, et rectrice tertia externa utrinque longissim^ 

 distinguendum. 



Typus est Micranous tenuirostris (Temm.). 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a pair of skins of Darwin's Tinamou 

 {Nothura darwini) from Patagonia [cf. Arg. Orn, ii. p. 213, 

 pi. XX.), recently received from Prof. Dr. Carlos Berg, Director 

 of the National Museum of Buenos Ayres, and pointed out 

 the discrepancy of the size of the sexes in this as in other 

 Tinamous, the male being considerably smaller than the 

 female. 



No. XXIY. (March 2nd, 1895.) 



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

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 20th of February, 1895. 



Chairman : St. George Mivart, F.R.S. 



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

 Graham, Edward Hargitt, Ernst Hartert, W. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, T. Parkin, C. E. Pearson, H. J. Pearson, Howard 

 Saunders [Treasurer), R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), John- 

 son Wilkinson, John Young. 



Visitors : J. H. Bidwell, C. B. Rickett, F. C. Selous, 

 H. Stevens. 



