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edges. Underside green, lower aspect of the quills and 

 tail brownish-black. " Iris yellowish-white, bill and feet 

 blackish.^' Wing 148, tail (worn) about 120, culmen 25, 

 tarsus 14 mm. 



? (? fully adult, in poor condition). Like the male, but 

 the colours are generally somewhat less bright. Wing about 

 139 mm. 



Hah. Humaytha, on the left bank of the Rio Madeira, 

 Brazil. 



Type in the Tring Museum: No. 1076, ll.viii. 06; 

 W. Hoffmanns coll. 



Obs. This new species is particularly interesting, not only 

 because it differs widely in coloration from the other species 

 of Conurus, but on account of the large bare patch surrounding 

 the eyes and the almost entirely bare loral region, which is 

 only crossed by a narrow line of feathers near the gape. In 

 this respect the bird resembles the species of the genus Ara, 

 in which the lores are entirely devoid of feathers, while they 

 are fully feathered in typical Conurus. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild also exhibited a series of 

 the extremely rare Pipra nattereri, ScL, from the Rio 

 Madeira : males of this species existed hitherto only in the 

 Vienna Museum. He also exhibited a skin of Cinclus 

 schulzi, Cab.j a very aberrant Dipper formerly unique in the 

 Berlin Museum. Some years ago Mr. Rothschild sent a 

 coloured sketch of this Dipper to Mr. Dinelli at Tucuman, 

 and after years of search he at last succeeded in getting a 

 series of specimens. 



Mr. Rothschild further showed a series of six males and 

 one female of his Palceornis intermedia {cf. Nov. Zool. 1895, 

 p. 492). Unfortunately this form was known only from 

 trade-skins shipped from Bombay. Speculations as to its 

 exact locality were useless, as these collections contained, 

 forms exclusively found in the Eastern Himalaya as well as 

 others occurring only in the north-western portions of 

 India. Palcsornis intermedia was similar to P. schisticeps, and 

 had the same yellow under mandible, but the colour of the 



