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animais and plants discovered by us in Brazil during 1S84 

 — 1899 (*), a list thate Istrive to complete and keep up to 

 date by mcans of frequcnt occasional printed supplcments, 

 which supplcments 1 am in the habit of sending to m}^ 

 scientific correspondents and fricnds. The scvcnth of thcsc 

 supplcments was dated and publishcd in Fehruary 1^04, as 

 may be verified by referring to thc linc bcneath the titlc. 

 By thc copy of thc pamphlcts. including ali the supplcments 

 up to this date, which I remit to thc editors with this com- 

 munication as documcntary cvidence, it will bc easy to ve- 

 rify thc fact in thc case by turning to numbers 323 and 

 324, wherc the tvvo birds in qucstion are namcd and bric- 

 fly describcd as to their most saHent features, but unquestio- 

 nably sufficient to excludc any doubt about their idcntity. 



Again in thc summcr of 1904, when I was in Europe 

 as a delcgate to the sixth International Zoological Congress, 

 held in Berne ( Switzcrland ), from 14"' to 19'L^ August, one 

 of my papers rcad before thc Congress treated of « Nova 

 zoológica, cspccially new Vertebratc forms of thc Amazo- 

 nian Region ». In this paper, §§ 25 and 2ó I not only des- 

 cribcd minutely the two new birds, Galbalcyrhynchus and 

 Pipra, but I also exhibitcd to the audience the very origi- 

 nais coniíisting of skins ( of which one pair of Galbalcyrh3'n- 

 chus purusianus was on thc same occasion presented to thc 

 Berne Muscum of Natujal History, being immcdiatch' after- 

 wards mounted and labellcd with the new name ) as wcU 

 as maps showing in colours ali dcsirable details concerning 

 thc gcographical distribution of the various species of the 

 neotropical familics Galbulidac and Pipridae. 



Thc Congres publishcd a daily official BuUetin cspc- 

 cially for the purpose of making known the proceedings of 



( * ) « Verieichniss der Insher wissenschafilich heschrieheiíen nenen Thicr- 

 und Pjlan:(enformen, luelche luãhrend der Jahre 1SS4 — iSçç in Brasilien 

 ( Staaten Rio de Janeiro, Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Espirito Santo, Bahia uud 

 Pará) gesanimelt iind entdecht luorden sind von Dr. p]]il. Eniil Angusl Goeldi, 

 — Bern ( Buchdruckerei Jent & C.'° 1S99 ) »— Bis Ende 1905 mit 9 Supp- 

 lementen : l."" Siippl. Herbst liS99— 2."' Suppl. Fruhjahr 1900— 3."' Suppl. 

 Januar 1901. 4.*"''' Suppl. October 1901—5."" Suppl. Juli 1902 — ó.'*'' Suppl. 

 Sept. 1902—7.'"" Suppl. Februar IÇ04—8J'"^ Suppl. Juni 1905— 9.""" vSuppI. 

 Dezember 1905. 



