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Gaumont Co., Ltd., 5 & 6 Sherwood Street, Piccadilly 

 Circus, some six weeks previously, and every precaution 

 liad been taken to ensure success, the Company's failure to 

 see that everything was in proper order before the meeting 

 ■was inexcusable. Many Members had come from long 

 distances, and their disappointment is greatly to be regretted. 

 The Gaumont Co. have since intimated their desire to give 

 an exhibition on the 8th of November free of cost, and have 

 undertaken to see that a sufficient electric current is available 

 before the next meeting takes place. 



The Hon. Walter Eothschild and Dr. Ernst Hartert 

 exhibited examples of two new species of Honey-eaters from 

 New Guinea, which they described as follows: — 



Melirrhophetes foersteri, sp. n. 



Adult male. Top of the head blackish-brown ; middle of 

 the forehead with a white patch ; rest of the upperside sooty 

 brown, each feather with an ashy-grey margin, the feathers 

 of the upper back being widely and those of the lower back 

 narrowly edged with white. Quills dark brown, buff at the 

 tips, outer webs margined with dark yellowish-green; rectrices 

 deep brown, edged with dark yellowish-green. Behind tlie 

 eye a bare patch, under which and above the black ear- 

 coverts runs a greyish-white line. From the base of the 

 mandible and on either side of the throat there are two 

 pairs of pendent wattles (apparently orange in life). Throat 

 blackish-brown, with a greyish-white line on each side. 

 Rest of the underside dark greyish-brown, each feather with 

 a white tip. Under tail-coverts widely edged with buflF. 

 Culmen 40 mm. ; wing about 173 ; tail 146 ; tarsus 39. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but much smaller and 

 with smaller wattles. Wing 151 mm. ; tail 135. 



Hah. Ilawlinson Mountains, north of Huou Gulf, German 

 New Guinea. 



The type specimens, which were obtained through Prof. 

 Foerstcr, are in the Tring Museum. 



