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Mr. Walter Goodpellow exhibited an egg of the Greater 

 Bircl-of-Paradise (Paradisea apoda). [The specimen agreed 

 with that procured by Mr. Charles Pratt in the Aru Islands, 

 which had been figured by Mr. CoUingwood Ingram in the 

 ' Avicultural Magazine ' for October, 1907.] 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition the 

 adult male of 



Carpodacus incertus, Grant (Bull. B. O. C. xvi. p. 122 ; 

 Ibis, 1907, p. 1G4). 



Mr. Grant had described this new form from females and 

 a young male, but had justly suspected that the adult male 

 would be " rose-coloured " or red. It was, however, not closely 

 allied to C. edwardsi, but rather more so to C. vinaceus, from 

 which it only differed in being larger (wiug 77-77'o mm.), 

 in being somewhat deeper and more vinous-red, and in 

 having the superciliary line slightly darker rosy, less whitish. 

 Mr. Alan Owston had sent three males and a female from 

 Mt. Arizan, Formosa. In view of its close relationship to 

 C. vinaceus the Formosan form should, in Mr. Rothschild's 

 opinij^n, be called C vinaceus incertus. 



Dr. E. Hartert exhibited an example of a new species 

 of Bullfinch, which the Hon. Walter Rothschild and he 

 proposed to describe as 



Pyrrhula owstoni, Rothsch. & Hart., sp. n. 



^ . Chin, lores, and forehead black, this colour forming 

 a complete ring round the bill. Pileum, hind-neck, and 

 back dark grey ; feathers of lower back blackish slate-colour, 

 bordered with grey ; rump white, some of the lateral 

 feathers on the tail partially black ; upper tail-covcrts blue- 

 black. Remiges slaty, outer margins dull black ; outer webs 

 of inner secondaries and both webs of innermost secondaries 

 blue-black, the latter moulting, but apparently without any 

 reddish or yellowish mark. Lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back, longest series lighter grey with whitish edges and 

 black bases ; primary-coverts black. Rectrices blackish. 



