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separated from P. ellioti, and only tlic car-tufts and silky 

 rump-feathers separate P. snemmerrinyi from P. colchicus. 

 Most ornithologists will, I think, consider that these 

 characters are much too trifling to necessitate generic 

 separation." 



Mr. Rothschild also exhibited an unknown Bird-of- 

 Paradise, belonging to a new genus, which he described as 

 follows : — 



PSEUDASTRAPIA, gCn. n. 



This new genus has the middle rectrices sharply pointed 

 and elongate as in the genus Falcinellus {Epimachus of 

 former authors). The bill is almost straight, as in Astrapia, 

 Loborhampkus, and other genera, and not long and sickle- 

 shaped; the feathering of the forehead is continued along 

 the bill and conceals the nostrils; and, as in the genus 

 Luborhamphus, there is a curious light-coloured fleshy lobe 

 above and below the angle of the mouth. 



PSEUDASTRAPIA LOBATA, Sp. U. 



Immature male'i General colour dull black, the forehead 

 with a bottle-green gloss ; the elongate middle rectrices 

 with a steel-blue gloss, especially on the outer webs. Bill 

 and feet black, the fleshy lobes at the base of the bill light- 

 coloured. Culmen 42 mm.; wing 187; middle pair of 

 rectrices 395, lateral pair of rectrices 122; metatarsus 46. 



Hab. Dutch New Guinea. Type in the Tring Museum. 



Mr. Rothschild subsequently exhibited a second specimen 

 of Loborhampkus nobilis [cf. Nov. Zool. 1903, p. 72, pi. i.) 

 and one of Janthothorax mirabilis. The type of the latter 

 species had lost the middle pair of rectrices, but these were 

 present in the specimen shown ; they were only 27 mm. 

 longer than the other tail-feathers and of a purplish-blue 

 colour glossed with greenish. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert described a new form of Wren from 

 Iceland. He stated that the Iceland Wren had hitherto 



