IV 



Lord Rothschild and Dr. Hartert have contributed further 

 valuable notes on the avifauna of Algeria, and have exhibited 

 many rare birds, including several new forms, from New 

 Guinea and the adjacent islands. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant has described a number of interesting 

 new species from the Snow Mountains of Dutch New Guinea 

 and from the Solomon Islands. 



The fine collections made by Mr. Willoughby Lowe, last 

 year, in British East Africa and Uganda ; also by the late 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander in Cameroon and the islands of the 

 Gulf of Guinea, in 1909, have both proved of exceptional 

 value. Mr. Claude Grant has almost completed working 

 out the former, while the present writer has worked out the 

 latter : from both collections many rare birds have been 

 exhibited at the Club during the Session and a number of 

 the new species and subspecies obtained are described in the 

 following pages. 



Dr. V. G. L. van Someren, who has recently returned 

 from Uganda with a valuable collection of birds, has described 

 no less than ten new forms from that El Dorado of the 

 Ornithologist. 



Notable exhibits by Mr. G. M. Mathews were specimens 

 of Aphelocephala pectoralis (Gould) from South Central 

 Australia — the only examples of Gould's species in 

 existence. 



Rare species from India have been exhibited by Mr. Stuart 

 Baker, and from South America by Mr. C. Chubb and the 

 late Lord Brabourne. 



Interesting exhibits of eggs have been made by the 

 Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, Dr. E. Hartert, Mr. C. E. Pearson, 

 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker and Mr. S. L. Whymper. 



The Lantern-Meeting which was held on the 10th of 

 March was well attended ; many of the slides shown proved 



