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4 Indigo Buntings............ WSpiza CYANCA ..reesvereeseee 
2 Baleniceps .......+0.....0008 Baleniceps rex weecsess.00s 
1 Stump-tailed Lizard ...... Trachydosaurus rugosus... 
1 Common Agouti............| Dasyprocta eae 
1 Coati-Mondi ...... w-|NWasud fused... .seseeeevees! 
4 American Doves............ Chamepelia passerina...... 
2 Red-winged Starlings...... | Agelaus pheeniceus......+.- 
2 Nonpareils ........ss0ssesees WSPIZ0 COTES 's <o05n-2~sasececse 
1 Common Gnu....... pat ed |Catoblepas gnu ....00...002! 
Setanta es | ¢ Purchased. 
T Wryneck 4 A cvccowseccocecees Yune torquilla ....00....., 
1 Wanderoo Monkey......... Silenus veter ...+.. Poti 
DP DGUG Wa; See. bend. cave cov eve|LOPIUS GAPTULUS .seseseeeses 
2 Lesser Weaver Birds...... Hyphantornis ........+...... 
3 Virginian Nightingales ... 
3 Turquoisine Parrakeets ... 
1 Wheatear 
weet ebeneseteseees 
Cardinalis virginiana ...... 
Psephotus pulchellus 
Saxicola enanthe 
sen eeeees 
1 Nuthatch..........sesc0..06 a Sitta COMER Se onccteeteaeke 
Of these, Baleniceps rex was stated to be exhibited for the first 
time. 
May 8, 1860. 
E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— ' 
1. ON AN APPARENTLY New Species oF ParapisE-Birp. 
: By Witxi1am Goopwin. 
I beg permission to introduce to your notice a Bird of Paradise, 
which I believe to be either altogether unknown, or at least hitherto 
undescribed. 
I have interested myself for many years in this branch of Orni- 
thology, and possess in my own collection twenty-nine specimens, re- 
presenting all the different species known up to the present time, 
with the exception of Semioptera wallacii. I have had opportunities 
of inspecting the fine collections of these birds sent to England by 
that energetic and able naturalist Mr. Wallace, and have searched 
in vain for any specimen similar to that which I have now the 
honour of introducing to the meeting. I therefore conclude it to 
be in all probability an entirely new and undescribed species. 
The bird now before you, which I believe to be the female, came 
into my possession about twenty years ago, together with another, 
which I have no doubt is the male bird. This latter specimen is 
now in the British Museum. 
