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Mr. Ernst Hartert stated that there was in the British 

 Isles a species of Tit hitherto overloolved by all observers. 

 This was the Pariis solicarius of C. L. Brehm, which had 

 been quite recently rediscovered in Germany by Herr Klein- 

 schmidt. Pariis salicariiis differed from the common British 

 Marsh-Tit in having the crown of a less glossy and more 

 brownish black, the flanks strongly washed with nifous_, 

 and in the dimensions being slightly different ; its call-note 

 also was different, and it seemed to keep strictly to dark, 

 shadowy, and swampy places. It was Mr. Hartert^s opinion 

 that P. salicai'ius was a distinct species ; and Herr Klein- 

 schmidt seemed even to think that the British form of 

 P. salicarius might be subspecifically separated from the 

 Continental form ; this, however, seemed still an open 

 question. 



Mr. Hartert exhibited a skin of the beautiful Pigeon 

 called Osculatia purpurea Salvad., from N. Ecuador, Only 

 the type in the British Museum was hitherto known. 



He stated that Mr. Albert Meek had found Paradisea 

 intermedia at Collingwood Bay in the north-eastern part 

 of British New Guinea ; and that Mr. Rothschild had 

 received some more skins of Macgreyoria pulchra from 

 Mount Scratchley. 



Mr. Hartert also exhibited a skin of a new species of 

 Tephras from the island of Buk, in the Caroline group, 

 which he characterized as follows : — 



Tephras ruki, sp. n. 



c? $ . Entirely sepia-brown, the inner webs of the remiges 

 and under wing-coverts lighter, inclining to whitish; the 

 primaries darker, the outer webs bordered with the same 

 colour as the back. Bill black ; iris red ; tarsi and feet 

 orange-rufous; claws mouse-brown. Total length 135-140 

 mm., wing 79-80, tail 52-53, culmen 21, tarsus 21. The 

 female a little smaller : wing 77-78 mm., tail 50, culmen 19. 

 Native name " Nikildon." 



