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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Ornithologists' 
  Club. 
  

  

  Otlier 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  this 
  new 
  genus 
  -wereH. 
  rueppelli 
  

   (Wahlb.) 
  andH. 
  humilis 
  (Blyth). 
  

  

  Neotis, 
  gen. 
  n. 
  Simile 
  geueri 
  " 
  Lissotis 
  " 
  dicto, 
  sed 
  rostro 
  

   longiorCj 
  culmine 
  digitum 
  medium 
  cum 
  ungue 
  excedente. 
  

   Typus 
  est 
  Neotis 
  ludivigi 
  (Riipp). 
  

  

  Other 
  species 
  of 
  tins 
  genus 
  were 
  N. 
  burchelU 
  (Heugl.), 
  

   N. 
  denhami 
  (Childr.), 
  N. 
  caffra 
  (Liclit.)^ 
  and 
  N. 
  heuglini 
  

   (Hartl.). 
  

  

  HouBAROPsis, 
  gen. 
  n. 
  Simile 
  generi 
  " 
  Houbara" 
  dicto, 
  sed 
  

   plumis 
  jugularibus 
  valde 
  elongatis^ 
  pileo 
  nucliaque 
  aliter 
  

   cristatisj 
  tarsis 
  longissimis 
  distinguendum. 
  

  

  Typus 
  est 
  Houbaropsis 
  bengalensis 
  (Gm,). 
  

  

  The 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild 
  exhibited 
  a 
  fine 
  pair 
  of 
  

   Paradisea 
  gulielmi-secundi 
  from 
  Kaiser 
  Wilhelm^s 
  Land 
  in 
  

   N.E. 
  New 
  Guiuea. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  H. 
  O. 
  Forbes 
  wished 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  correction 
  with 
  

   reference 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  he 
  had 
  described 
  at 
  a 
  former 
  Meeting 
  

   of 
  the 
  B. 
  O. 
  C. 
  as 
  Diaphorapteryx 
  (see 
  above, 
  p. 
  254). 
  He 
  

   had 
  accepted 
  the 
  opinion 
  of 
  Prof. 
  Newton 
  that 
  the 
  remains 
  

   from 
  Mauritius 
  and 
  those 
  from 
  the 
  Chatham 
  Islands 
  be- 
  

   longed 
  to 
  distinct 
  genera, 
  and 
  had 
  adopted 
  his 
  suggestion 
  

   of 
  the 
  name 
  Diaphorapteryx 
  ; 
  but 
  after 
  personally 
  examining 
  

   the 
  Mauritian 
  remains 
  at 
  Cambridge, 
  Mr. 
  Forbes 
  could 
  

   not 
  see 
  his 
  way 
  to 
  agree 
  that 
  the 
  two 
  forms 
  were 
  generi 
  cally 
  

   different. 
  He 
  was 
  therefore 
  constrained 
  to 
  discard 
  his 
  new 
  

   genus 
  and 
  to 
  reinstate 
  that 
  of 
  Aphanapteryx 
  for 
  the 
  Ocy- 
  

   dromine 
  remains 
  from 
  both 
  the 
  above-named 
  islands. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Forbes 
  also 
  exhibited 
  the 
  Dinornithine 
  tibiae 
  on 
  which 
  

   he 
  had 
  based 
  a 
  new 
  genus, 
  Palceocasuarius, 
  and 
  pointed 
  out 
  

   that 
  the 
  bone 
  differed 
  from 
  the 
  tibia 
  of 
  Dinornis 
  (in 
  its 
  widest 
  

   sense) 
  in 
  being 
  straighter 
  and 
  less 
  twisted 
  on 
  itself, 
  so 
  that 
  

   the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  ridge 
  forming 
  the 
  inner 
  wall 
  of 
  the 
  

   groove 
  for 
  the 
  tendons 
  of 
  the 
  extensor 
  muscles 
  ran 
  along 
  the 
  

   inner 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  bone, 
  as 
  in 
  Casuarius. 
  As 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  

   genus 
  also, 
  it 
  took 
  a 
  marked 
  bend 
  inwards 
  and 
  backwards 
  

   before 
  joining 
  the 
  epicnemial 
  crest, 
  while 
  a 
  line 
  joining 
  the 
  

  

  