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its sessions and giving- bricf extracts from thc adresses and 

 papers prescntcd. Now in N.» 4 of this Bulletin publishcd 

 ÂVedncsday 17"' Augast 1904, a fuU summary is givcn, pa- 

 gcs 9 and 10, of my paper rcad on thc previons day. and 

 hcrc once more cxist the undeniable proofs of the fuU scien- 

 tiíic recognition and classification and the complete naming 

 of thc two birds at that date. Further I would statc that 

 my manuscript was rcady for thc press and handed to thc 

 editorial comittcc on thc same occasion, in ordcr to avail 

 myself of my short stay in Europc to corrcct thc printcr's 

 proof. I kcep duplicatc of this proof stampcd by the prin- 

 ting officc ( W. Kiindig & fils, — Gencve ) with thc date of 

 3Í Septcmber 1904. The circumstance that thc complete vo- 

 lume of thc procecdings of thc International Zoological 

 Congress was not publishcd until 1905 (and my separata 

 of thc aforesaid paper are dated as coming from the press 

 25"] May 1905), does not in thc least affcct the principal 

 point of the question in vicw of thc invinciblc proofs of 

 previous publicity. In passing I would also mcntion thc fur- 

 tlicr fact that bcforc the date of the Congress I had alrcady 

 had thc two ncw birds picturcd on a platc for thc next 

 and last part of my iconographic work « Álbum de ^\.^'cs 

 Amazonicas », in coursc of publication. ( As to thc stage oí 

 progress in the publication of this work, the original platcs, 

 24 in numbcr, forming c double part, are alrcady complete 

 and may be expected from tlic press about .\pril or May 

 of 1906). 



Whcn in July 1905 I was a Dclegatc to the iourth 

 International Ornithological Congress, held in London. I 

 again had with me thc original spccimcns of the two above 

 mcntioned birds, supposing that thereby I might give plca- 

 surc tho those Ornithologists present espccially interested in 

 Neotropical A^•ifauna. Such was thc case with thc great 

 majority. I had the plcasure of seeing clcarly that a num- 

 bcr of thc most authoritative specialists sharcd my opinion 

 and aknowlcdgcd the justeness of my claim concerning the 

 novelty of tlic íind. Notwithstanding on thc same occasion 

 the painfuU obscrvation was forced upon me that two ul- 

 tramodcrn ornithologists from a Muscum in England denicd 



