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families, together with an index, had been compressed by- 

 Mr. Hartert, the author of this section, into ninety-eight 

 pages. Mr. Sclater himented the use of the German lan- 

 guage in this great undertaking, as it would render the book 

 almost useless to many ornithologists in England and the 

 United States. It would, in his opinion, have been much 

 better to have employed Latin — the universal language 

 of science, known to every properly educated person in the 

 world — in a work of this cosmopolitan character. 



No. XLIV. (April 30th, 1897.) 



The forty- third Meeting of the Club Avas held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 2 1st of April, 1897. 



Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Members present : — Philip Crowley, W. E. De Winton, 

 W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Ernst Hartert, Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart., M.P., Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 

 H. J. Pearson, Frank Penrose, Howard Saunders {Trea- 

 surer), R. Bowdler Sharpe [Editor], W. B. Tegetmeier, 

 W. F. Urwick, John Young. 



Visitoi's : Admiral the Rt, Hon. Sir John Dalrymple 

 Hay, Bart., K.C.B., Dr. Cuthbert Christy, F. E. Mugford. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., who had recently examined 

 the collection of Tufted Owlets in the British Museum, 

 communicated the following descriptions of species believed 

 by him to be undescribed : — 



' Scops ingens, n. sp. 



Simihs S. brasiliano, et eodem modo coloratus, sed ubique 



saturatior et valde major. Long. tot. 10"5 poll., alse 



8-2. 

 Hab. Ecuador. 



Scops sanct.e-catarin.e, n. sp. 

 Similis S. guatemalce, gastrseo absque colore flavo insignis, 

 pectoris colore clare definito, sed ab hac specie et a 



