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  resembled 
  that 
  of 
  Paradisea 
  apoda 
  figured 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Meyer 
  

   from 
  the 
  Aru 
  Islands 
  (Zeitsclir. 
  ges. 
  Orn. 
  i. 
  Taf. 
  xvii. 
  fig. 
  2) 
  . 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  Trevor-Battye 
  exhibited 
  some 
  skins 
  of 
  Parus 
  

   borealls 
  and 
  P. 
  palustris 
  from 
  Sweden, 
  and 
  made 
  some 
  

   remarks 
  on 
  the 
  different 
  habits 
  and 
  notes 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  species 
  

   as 
  observed 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  that 
  country. 
  Remarks 
  on 
  this 
  subject 
  

   were 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Howard 
  Saunders, 
  Rev. 
  H. 
  H. 
  Slater, 
  

   Mr. 
  Ernst 
  Hartert, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  J. 
  Pearson. 
  

  

  The 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  sent 
  for 
  exhibition 
  the 
  

   type 
  of 
  the 
  remarkable 
  new 
  genus, 
  Palmeria 
  mirabilis, 
  from 
  

   Mauai, 
  Sandwich 
  Islands, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  Loxops 
  

   ochracea 
  and 
  Hemignathus 
  affinis, 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  which 
  

   would 
  appear 
  in 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis 
  ' 
  for 
  January 
  1893. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Ernst 
  Hartert 
  exhibited 
  an 
  example 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  Conurus 
  

   obtained 
  by 
  him 
  on 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Aruba, 
  which 
  he 
  proposed 
  

   to 
  call 
  

   - 
  Conurus 
  arubensis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Conurus 
  C. 
  (Erug'moso 
  simillimus, 
  sed 
  fronte 
  pallidiore, 
  loris, 
  

   capitis 
  lateribus 
  et 
  gula 
  Isetioribus 
  et 
  conspicue 
  luteo 
  vel 
  

   aureo 
  tinctis 
  distinguendus. 
  Al. 
  5*4 
  poll., 
  caud. 
  5. 
  

   This 
  new 
  form 
  might 
  be 
  called 
  intermediate 
  between 
  

   C 
  pertinax 
  and 
  C. 
  ceruginosus. 
  Mr. 
  Hartert 
  had 
  obtained 
  

   four 
  skins, 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  compared 
  with 
  a 
  good 
  many 
  skins 
  of 
  

   both 
  C. 
  (eruginosus 
  and 
  C. 
  pertinax 
  in 
  Mus. 
  H. 
  v. 
  Berlepsch, 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  the 
  Rothschild 
  Museum. 
  

   Hab. 
  Aruba, 
  West 
  Indies. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  P. 
  L. 
  ScLATER 
  exhibited 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  an 
  extra- 
  

   ordinary 
  bird 
  from 
  South-eastern 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  Paramythia 
  

   montium, 
  De 
  Vis 
  (Ann. 
  Queensl. 
  Mus. 
  No. 
  2, 
  p. 
  6). 
  This 
  

   species 
  had 
  been 
  discovered 
  by 
  Sir 
  William 
  Macgregor 
  on 
  

   Mount 
  Suckling, 
  and 
  placed 
  by 
  Mr. 
  de 
  Vis 
  in 
  the 
  family 
  

   Sturnidce 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  doubtful 
  whetlier 
  its 
  affinities 
  lay 
  with 
  

   the 
  Starlings. 
  

  

  The 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  sent 
  for 
  exhil)ition 
  a 
  typical 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  Duck, 
  which 
  he 
  proposed 
  to 
  call 
  

  

  