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Lord Rothschild exhibited four specimens o£ North's 

 Bird of Paradise, Paradisea apoda granti North. Ho 

 remarked that, so far as published records showed, this 

 form was unrepresented in all the European museums, the 

 recorded specimens (including the type) being in the museum 

 at Sydney. He pointed out that this form is intermediate 

 between P. a. intermedia De Vis and P. a. augustce-victorice 

 Cab., the side-plumes being reddish orange as opposed to the 

 crimson of P. a. intermedia and the golden-orange of P. a. 

 augustce-victorice. None of the four exhibited have the yellow 

 band below the green throat so wide as in North's type, but 

 the latter himself subsequently obtained examples with 

 narrow bands. The habitat of this form is the low country 

 on the eastern two-thirds of Huon Gulf (Bakawa and Samo 

 Harbour) up to 50 miles inland. North suggests that there 

 may be some of this form in German museums, but none 

 have been recorded. 



Lord Rothschild also described the following new 

 species of Paradisea : — 



Paradisea mixta, sp. nov. 



^ ad. Intermediate between Paradisea minor minor Shaw 

 and P. apoda novceguinece D'Alb. & Salvad. It has the 

 back and head of P. m. minor, but the green frontal band is 

 narrower. The breast cushion is similar to P. a. novce- 

 guinece, separate from the lower parts consisting of curled 

 feathers. The ornamental side-plumes are those of novce- 

 guinece, NOT similar to minor. 



2 c? (? . Habitat ? 



The bird may be a hybrid between minor and novceguinece, 

 but is not probable. 



Mr. P. F. BuNYAED exhibited mounted specimens of nest- 

 feathers and down of the American Wigeon {Mareca 

 americana) from Buffalo Lake, Alberta, taken by Mr. G. H. 

 Lings on the 31. v. 20, which Mr. Bunyard described as 

 follows : — 



Feathers. Terminal portion pure white, basal or downy 



