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BULLETIN 



OF THB 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



Mo. CLXXIV. 



The hundred and seventy-second Meeting of the Club was held 

 at Pagani's Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W., on 

 Wednesday, the 13th of December, 1911. 



Chairman: P. L. Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 Members present : — W. I. Beaumont, E, Bidwell, J. L. 



BONHOTE, C. D. BORRER, P. F. BUNYARD, Col. S. E. ClARKE, 



E. V. Earle, C. Garnett, H. Goodchild, C. H. B. Grant, 

 E. Hartert, Ph.D., Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, G. E. Lodge, 

 P. R. Lowe, M.D., G. M. Mathews, R. O. Mathews, H. 

 MuNT, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Editor), C. Olbham, C. E. 

 Pearson, Major F. W. Proctor, W. P. Pycraft, F. R. 

 Ratcliff, R. H. Read, C. B. Rickett, Hon. W. Rothschild, 

 Ph.D., W. L. ScLATER, D. Seth-Smith, A. Thorburn, N. F. 

 TicEHURST, F.R.C.S., H. F. Witherby (Sec. ^ Treas.). 

 Visitor : — R. S. Clarke. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild and Dr. Ernst Hartert 

 exhibited examples of some new birds from New Guinea, 

 which they described as follows : — 



Androphilus viridis, sp. n. 



Adult male. Upperside olive-green, the feathers being 

 browner in the middle and at the base, upper tail-coverts 



[December 28th, 1911.] vol, xxix. 



