436 Annual Meetinij of the B. 0. U. 



ditions made by JNIr. Joyner in Brazil. It is possible that 

 his " Pelotas " may refer to the Pelotas river, which forms 

 the boundary between the States of Rio Grande do Sul and 

 Santa Catharina, between 27°-28° S. lat., and where the fauna 

 may correspond to that represented in the collection of 

 Mr. Joyner. Until we have exact information on the 

 localities visited by Joyner, I cannot admit these species 

 with inexact habitats as proper for discussion, and they have 

 consequently been omitted in my list of Rio Grande do Sul 

 birds, which I have just finished. 

 Sao Paulo, March 10th, 1899. 



[We quite agree with the author of this paper that there 

 must have been an error in the locality " Pelotas, Rio Grande 

 do Sul/' assigned to Joyner's specimens. On examining 

 the labels of the specimens in the British Museum, we find 

 that they are tiot original labels of the collector, but written, 

 probably under Salvin's instructions, on card-labels specially 

 prepared for the Salvin-Godman Collection. 



Joyner, as we are kindly informed by Mr. Alexander Fry, 

 Avas a civil engineer, employed on the waterworks of the 

 city of Sao Paulo in the years 1881-3. Some of his speci- 

 mens are labelled " Rio Claro, Goyaz/' as will be observed 

 in the Catalogue of Birds. This locality may be correct, 

 but that of "Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul," is^ no doul)tj 

 quite unreliable. Mr. Fry does not believe that Mr. Joyner 

 was ever at Pelotas himself, and the birds so labelled were 

 probably procured from some one else. — P. L. S.] 



XXXVI. — Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 1899. 



The Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists^ 

 Union was held at the rooms of the Zoological Society of 

 London, 3 Hanover Square (by permission of the Council of 

 that Society), on Wednesday, the 3rd of May, at 6 p.m., 

 Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



