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Professor Othniel Charles Marsh, of Yale College, New- 

 haven, U.S., was elected a Foreign Member of the Union, 



The Meeting then adjourned with a vote of thanks to the 

 Chairman, which was proposed by Canon Tristram, seconded 

 by Mr. W. T. Blanford, and carried unanimously. 



The Annual Dinner, which was subsequently held, was 

 attended by about 30 members of the B.O.U. and guests. 



More Novelties from Loiver California. — Mr. Ridgway 

 writes to us that the United States Museum lias lately 

 received some more good things from their collector in 

 Lower California, the most interesting of which are addi- 

 tional specimens of Turdus confinis (an " excellent species '') 

 and examples of a ne\v and very distinct Junco, a new Psaltri-- 

 par us, a remarkable new Anthus (most like A. jjrateiisisl), 

 besides examples of several new geographical or local races 

 or subspecies. This collector, at the time of writing, had 

 only commenced his season^s work, this being his first 

 instalment, and more discoveries were expected. 



Neiv Birds froin the Argentine Republic. — The last numbers 

 of the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' contain several articles by 

 Dr. Cabanis upon the collection of birds recently made by Herr 

 Fritz Schiilz in the upper provinces of the Argentine Republic, 

 The new species described are : — Colaptes longirostris (J. f . O. 

 1883, p. 97), Cinclus schulzi et Phloeotomus schulzi (ibid, 

 p. 102), Chloronerpes tucumanus (ibid. p. 103), Troglodytes 

 auricularis et Scytalopus superciliaris (ibid. p. 104), Orospina 

 pratensis (ibid. p. 108), Phrygilus dorsalis, Buarremon citri- 

 nellus, Placellodomus sincipitalis et P. maculipectus (ibid, 

 p. 109), Chloronerpes frontalis et Synallaxis superciliosa 

 (ibid. p. 110). Orospina is a new genus of Fringillidse, 

 allied to Sycalis. The discovery of a Water-Ouzel so far 

 south in the New World is of great interest. Herr Schiilz 

 met with it on the mountain-brooks of the Cerro Vayo of 

 Tucuman. Herr Schiilz has also himself described Cnipo- 

 legus cabanisi from the same district (J. f. O. 1882, p. 462). 



