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groups of tlie pygmy people discovered by the Expedition : 

 one man was seen shooting arrows with the long bow which 

 these people always carry, and another was shown in a 

 characteristic attitude making fire by the friction of wood. 

 The film that aroused the greatest interest was one which 

 showed a roughly-shaped tree-trunk being dragged by natives 

 through the foi'cst to be launched down a steep bank into 

 the river, where it was subsequently hollowed out to make a 

 canoe. Village scenes and canoes being paddled down 

 the Mimika River showed other aspects of native life. The 

 last film shewn represented a Avar-dance performed by the 

 Dyak coolies, who, unfortunately, arrived too late to be of 

 assistance to the Expedition. Their head-dresses of Horn- 

 bills' feathers and the marvellous lightness of some of their 

 antics gave them a remarkably bird-like appearance. 



The Hon. Walter Eothschild exhibited examples of a 

 new species of Thickhead from New Guinea, which he 

 described as follows : — 



Pachycephala tenebrosa, sp. n. 



Adult male. Upperside blackish-brown, becoming almost 

 pure black on the crown and hind-neck, and more rufescent on 

 the rump; sides of the head brownish-black ; chin and throat 

 greyish-brown, striped and barred with dull black ; rest of 

 the underside rufous-brown, more rufescent on the vent and 

 under tail-coverts ; wings and tail brownish-black ; under 

 wing-coverts hke the abdomen. Iris dark chocolate; bill and 

 feet black. Culmen 23-24- mm. ; wing 96 ; tail 88, lateral 

 rectrices about 78 ; tarsus 28-30. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but not of so deep a 

 blackish-brown, and slightly smaller. Wing 90-92 mm. 



Hab. Central Dutch New Guinea. 



Type in the Tring Museum: S- No. 5394. Mount 

 Goliath, 15. ii. Jl. A. S. Meek coll. 



Obs. Mr. Albert Meek forwarded nine examjdes of this 

 species, but most of them are in moult and some are 

 apparently young. One male and one or two females 

 appear to be fully adult. 



