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Astrapia splendidissima, liothsch. 

 DiphyUodes magnijicus magnijinis (Penn). 

 Manucodia atra altera, Rothsch. & Hart. 



„ chalybata orientalis, Salvad. 



Charmosyna atra, Rotliscli. 



„ stellce goliatlnna, Rotbscli. 



Geoff roy us simidex (Meyer). 



Mr. Rothscliild remarked : — "In 'The Ibis/ 1911,1 entered 

 Manucodia jobiensis (Salvad.) as a subspecies of M. chalybata, 

 but the B. O. U. Expedition collected this bird together with 

 M. chalybata orientalis, so that it will in future have to stand 

 as a good species. Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, in Appendix A of 

 Mr. "Wollaston's book ' Pygmies and Papuans/ states that 

 neither Mr. Goodfellow nor Mr. Meek obtained the fully 

 adult male of Parotia carol<2 meeki, but Mr. Meek on his 

 second trip obtained the adult male exhibited here to-night. 

 Of Lobojm7-adisea and Pteridophora, of which unfortunately 

 only females and out-of-plumage birds were procured, I also 

 exhibit adult males from native sources for comparison." 



Mr. Thomas Parkin exhibited a specimen of the Terek 

 Sandpiper {Terekia cinerea, Giildenst.) which had been shot 

 at Brookland, in llomney Marsh, Kent, on the 23rd of May, 

 1912. Mr. Parkin stated that the bird had been sent direct 

 to Mr. G. Bristow, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, who at once 

 brought it to him for identification. The bird, which proved 

 to be a male, had evidently been killed with large shot ; the 

 head was somewhat smashed, the blood upon it being hardly 

 dry. A female was also shot at the same time and place, 

 another male on the 23rd, and a female on the 25th; the 

 last three specimens had been examined in the flesh by 

 Messrs. W. R. Butterfield and J. Harrison. 



These were believed to be the first recorded examples 

 obtained in Great Britain. Mr. H. E. Dresser, in his ' Birds 

 of Europe/ vol. viii. p. 196, stated that this species bred 

 pkntifuUy in Northern Russia, but seldom visited any other 

 part of Europe. It was likewise spread over Siberia; and on 

 the approach of winter migrated into India and China, even 

 reaching Australia and Southern Africa. He also remarked 



