115 [\^ol. xliii. 



Miss Best also had a remarkable set of photographs 

 from North Uist, some of her slides depicting the home-, 

 life of the Grey-lag Goose and Black-throated Diver 

 being specially worthy of notice. She also exhibited 

 slides of the Curlew and Common Sandpiper taken in 

 Northumberland. 



Mr. D. Seth- Smith greatly interested the audience by 

 his slides illustrating the display of various birds in 

 the Zoological Society's Garden — as, for example, that of 

 Salceniceps, RliinocTicetus, Eurypyga, and Polyplectron. 



Lord Rothschild made the following remarks on inter- 

 mediate specimens between Paradisea apoda raggiana Sol. 

 and Paradisea apoda novceguinece D'Alb. & Salv. : — 



In the ' Bulletin ' of the Club for February of this year 

 Dr. Lowe has described a Bird-of-Paradise as a new form, 

 intermediate between the P. a. raggiana and P. a. novce- 

 guinece races of Paradisea apoda. Such birds have been 

 known for the last forty-five years, having been discovered 

 by Signer D'Albertis in 1877 on the Fly River and described 

 by him and Count Salvador! in 1879. D'Albertis obtained 

 15 males and 4 females of these intermediate birds, showing 

 all intergradations from yellow-plumed birds like pure P. a. 

 novceguinece, but showing traces of the yellow shoulder- 

 patch and collar of P. a. raggiana, to others with the almost 

 pure red plumes of P. a. raggiana but with obsolete or no 

 yellow shoulder-patches. Dr. Lowe has described this bird 

 as a subspecies or local race, but I cannot follow him in this. 

 It is, however, rather difficult to fix exactly a term suitable 

 for these birds. In a state of nature where hybrids between 

 two species or two local races occur they are generally very 

 scarce, or else isolated cases only. Here, however, we have 

 an example of large numbers, for since the plume-hunters 

 have invaded the Fly River districts many hundreds of these 

 intermediate birds have been sent over. There are three or 

 four parallel cases, viz. : the intermediate forms between 



