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Mr. W. Doherty and Mr. A, H. Everett had collected a 

 series, including examples of both sexes, in the interior of 

 the island of Sumba. 



Mr. Rothschild also showed skins of Psitteuteles 

 weberi, Biittik., and P. eiiteles. Numbers of the latter 

 species had been collected by Dr. A. R. Wallace both in 

 Timor and Flores, while the former had been first obtained 

 in Flores by Prof. Weber, and more recently by Mr. Everett. 

 Prof. Mivart, in his ' Monograph of the Loriidse/ had united 

 the two species, because both occurred in Flores. It seemed 

 remarkable that both species should inhabit the same island, 

 and it was suggested that possibly Dr^ Wallace's specimens of 

 P. euteles bore an erroneous locality ; but, in either case, the 

 two species were perfectly distinct, differing much in colour 

 and size. 



Mr, Rothschild made further remarks on Prof. Stecre's 

 type of Paradisea minor, var. albesceiis, Musschenbr. It was 

 shown to be a " made up " specimen ; part being a male of 

 the typical P. minor, showing the white abdomen charac- 

 teristic of the immature bird, to which had been added the 

 long side plumes of a male of P. minor jobiensis, Rothsch. 



Mr. Rothschild likewise informed the Meeting that he 

 had purchased the collection of the late Christian Ludwig 

 Brehm. This once-celebrated collection of one of the 

 fathers of German ornithology had unfortunately suffered 

 fi'om neglect, being kept in a small country house, but 

 it still contained neai'ly all the types of the many " species " 

 and '^ subspecies '' made by C. L. Brehm, It had been 

 customary among British and Continental authors to place 

 Brehm's numerous names as synonyms of our well-known 

 European species ; but, although this might be right in the 

 majority of cases, recent investigations had shown that some 

 of Brchm's forms, such as Nucifraga, Parus, Certliia, 

 Galerida, and others, deserved subspecific and even specific 

 rank. 



