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to the new building in South Kensington, which is already 

 begun, and will probably be finished during the present year. 

 But we believe that arrangements are being made for the 

 early commencement of future volumes of this important 

 undertaking. 



Mr. Dresser's Monograph of the Bee-eaters (Meropidae) is, 

 we are told, making good progress, the plates being all drawn 

 on the stone. 



Discovery of a new Bird of Paradise. — In a box of bird- 

 skins just received from Mr. Andrew Goklie are specimens 

 of a fine new Bird of Paradise, which were obtained in the 

 D^Entrecasteaux Islands, off" the coast of New Guinea. We 

 propose to give a full description and figure of it in the next 

 number of ' The Ibis.' In the meantime the following dia- 

 gnosis will serve to distinguish it : — ^^^ ^^j 



-D ""^-^ 



rARADISEA DECORA. ^ 



6 . Supra sericeo-straminea, alis caudaque fuscis, rectricibus 

 mediis elongatis filiformibus, sicut ut in P. apoda ; 

 fronte anguste et gula viridescentibus ; subtus lilacina 

 vinaceo tincta, pectore saturatiore, abdomine medio albi- 

 cantiore; plumis hypochondriacis posticis ruberrimis, 

 apicibus canescentibus, forma sicut in P. sanguinea, 

 anticis brevibus, apicibus laetissime saturate vinaceis. 

 Statura P. raggiance. ? inornata ; subtus gula fusca, 

 abdomine rufo-fusco, pectore fusco irrorato. 



O. Salvin and F. D. Godman. 



Obituary — Pi'of. Reinhardt. — We are sorry to record the 

 death of Professor Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, one of 

 the original Honorary Members of the B. 0. U., which took 

 place after a tedious illness on the 22nd of October last. 

 The son of Johannes Hagemann Beinhardt, Professor of 

 Zoology in the University of Copenhagen (who died in 

 1845), our late member was born in that city in 1816, 

 and at first applied himself to the study of medicine. His 

 earliest publication was on ornithology, being a brief 

 notice (Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, iv. p. 71) of the discovery 



