Letters, Announcements, &c. 253 
1855, p. 68), one of the few Tanagers wanting to my series. 
I am now convinced that the genus Schistochlamys (sive Diu- 
cops) is not the proper position for this curious bird, which 
is remarkable for its straight gonys and but very slightly in- 
curved culmen. I propose to remove it to near Arremon, 
where I think it will fit in better, under the new generic 
term Conothraupis (Kavos, Conus, and Opavtis, tanagra) ; so 
that it will stand as Conothraupis speculigera. Mr. Gould’s 
types were from the Ucayali (Hauewell); M. Taczanowski 
received his specimens from Callacate, in Central Peru (Stolz- 
mann).—P. L. ScuaTer. 
Meyer’s Chart of New Guinea.—In a privately printed 
volume entitled ‘ Ausziige aus den auf einer Neu-Guinea Reise 
im Jahre 1873 gefiihrten Tagebiichern von Adolf Bernhard 
Meyer, als Erlauterung zu den Karten der Geelvink-Bai und 
des Maccluer-Gclfes,’ printed at Dresden in 1875, a copy of 
which Dr. Meyer has kindly forwarded to one of us, is given 
a photographic copy of the author’s original MS. chart of the 
great Bay of Geelvink, in New Guinea, and the islands lying 
therein. Dr. Meyer’s route during his expedition in 1873 is 
shown by a red line. There is also a lithographed chart of 
the neck of land between the Bay of Geelvink and the head 
of Maccluer’s Gulf, on a larger scale, to show Dr. Meyer’s 
track when he traversed the isthmus. These maps are illus- 
trated by extracts from Dr. Meyer’s journal, which are so 
arranged as to give a complete account of this celebrated 
journey. The volume is, we need hardly say, of the greatest 
interest to those who are concerned with the natural history 
of New Guinea and its islands. 
There would appear to be no serious difficulty in a deter- 
mined explorer following Dr. Meyer’s plan of hiring a vessel 
at Ternate and visiting various spots in this part of New 
Guinea. Dr. Meyer’s reception by the natives seems to have 
been everywhere of the most satisfactory description. 
Obituary.— Mr. Epwarp Herarir Ropp, whose name is 
well known to all students of British ornithology, died at 
