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basal half of each feather being black. Flank -feathers long, 

 extending beyond the wings, green fading into a coppery 

 olive-green and mixed with some large scale-like feathers, 

 purple with metallic-blue borders. Side plumes short, 

 metallic purple, tipped with brilliant peacock metallic blue. 

 Total length 830 mm., wing 185, tail 595, tarsus 50. 

 Hab. Dutch New Guinea. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a specimen of the rare 

 Myzomela lafargei, Hombr. & Jacq., hitherto only known 

 from the type in the Paris Museum. The specimen was 

 from the Solomon Islands, either from Guadalcanar or 

 Bougainville Island. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited an egg of the " Turco " of the 

 Chilians {Hylactes mega'podius^, belonging to the late 

 Mr. Berkeley James's Collection, and obtained by Mr. A. A. 

 Lane at Hacienda Mansel, as described in 'The Ibis' for 

 1897 (p. 44). The colour was white, but with an earthy 

 brownish stain, and rather smooth texture, the dimensions 

 1*35 by I'Oo. So far as Mr. Sclater knew, this was the first 

 e,^'^ of any species of the family Pteroptochidce yet described. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe sent for exhibition some specimens 

 of birds from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, where 

 they had been collected by Mr. C. W. Andrews. The species 

 exhibited were Merula erythropleura (Sharpe), Zosterops 

 natalis, Lister, Collocalia natalis, Lister, Carpophaga whar- 

 toni, Sharpe, Chalcophaps natalis, Lister, Astur natalis, 

 Lister, Ninox natalis, Lister, Tringoides liijpoleucus (L>), 

 Limnobctnus fuscus (Linn,), Mesoplioyx plumifera (Gould), 

 Demiegretta sacra (Gm.), Sulasula (L.), Pha'ethon phoenicurus 

 (L.), P. flavo-aurantius, Lawr. The Limnobcenus and Meso- 

 phoyx were additions to the list of Christmas Island birds, as 

 published by Mr. J. J. Lister (P. Z. S. 1888, pp. 517-529). 



Mr. W. E. Ogilvie Grant made some remarks on the 

 Tropic-Bird {Pha€thonJlavo-aurantius,Jja.wreuce) obtained by 

 Mr. C. W. Andrews on the above-mentioned island. This 



