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rriday_, the 7th inst. Pie felt sure that the loss of so 

 eminent an ornithologist, one of the few remaining original 

 members of the British Ornithologists' Union, would cause 

 the deepest regret to all those present. 



Dr. ScLATER then called attention to the presence at the 

 Meeting of two distinguished zoological travellers, Mr. R. B. 

 Woosnam and Mr. Walter Goodfellow, whose recent ex- 

 plorations had resulted in the discovery of many new and 

 interesting birds, which from time to time had been de- 

 scribed by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant in the ' Bulletin ' of the Club. 

 Mr. Woosnam, the leader of the Ruwenzori Expedition, would 

 presently give a short account of the successful exploration of 

 that wonderful mountain-range and of the collections marie 

 by his part;^. Mr. Goodfellow, also well-known to the 

 Members of the Club from his travels in South America 

 and among the islands of the East, and who had recently 

 returned from New Guinea, bringing with him a fine col- 

 lection of living Birds-of-Paradise, would also, in the course 

 of the evening, give a brief outline of his adventures. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild described an example of 

 a new Bird-of- Paradise, which he proposed to call : — 



LOPHORINA MINOR LATIPENNIS, Subsp. U. 



Adult male. Differs from the male of L. m. minor from the 

 Owen-Stanley Mountains, British New Guinea, in haAdng 

 the long lateral feathers of the pectoral shield generally 

 slightly longer and always distinctly wider. 



Hab. Rawlinson Mountains, German New Guinea. 



Type in the Tring Museum : S , No. 90506. Rawlinson 

 Mountains : Carl Wahnes coll. 



Obs. The occurrence of a species of Lophorina in German 

 New Guinea is an interesting new discovery. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert made some remarks on the subspecies 

 of Mirafra africana : — 



" Mirnfra africana tropicalis is easily distinguished from 



