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Mr. Philip Crowley exhibited a nest and egg of Para- 

 disea raggiana and the egg of Chlamydodera cerviniventris 

 from South-eastern New Guinea; also an e^^ of Chlamy- 

 dodera maciilata from Clarence River^ N. S. Wales. That 

 of C. cerviniventris had been procured by Mr. Goldie at ]Milne 

 Bay, S.E. New Guinea. The Paradisea was stated to build 

 in shrubs from about 15 to 20 feet in height, and the egg 

 resembled that of Paradisea apoda figured by Dr. Meyer 

 from the Aru Islands (Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. Taf. xvii. fig. .2). 



Mr. A. Trevor-Battye exhibited some skins of Parus 

 horealis and P. palustris from Sweden, and made some 

 remarks on the different habits and notes of the two species 

 as observed by him in that country. Remarks on this subject 

 were made by Mr. Howard Sacjnders, Rev. H. H. Slater, 

 Mr. Erxst Hartert, and Mr. H. J. Pearson. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition the 

 type of the remarkable new genus Palmeria ynirabilis from 

 Mauai, Sandwich Islands, as well as types of Loxops ochracea 

 and Hemignathus affinis, the descriptions of which will appear 

 in ' The Ibis ' for January 1893. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited an example of a new Conurus 

 obtained by hioi on the island of Aruba, which he proposed 

 to call 



Conurus arubensis, sp. n. 



Conurus C. aruginoso simillimus, sed fronte pallidiore, loris, 

 capitis lateribus et gula ketioribus et conspicue luteo vel 

 aureo tmctis distinguendus. Al. o'-t poll., caud. 5. 

 This new form might be called intermediate between 

 C. pertinaa: and C. ceruginosvs. Mr, Hartert had obtained 

 four skins, which he had compared with a good many skins of 

 both C. aruginosus and C. pertinax in Mus. H. v. Berlepsch, 

 the^British Museum, and the Rothschild Museum. 

 Hub. Aruba, West Indies. 



Dr. P. L. Sclater exhibited a specimen of an extra- 

 ordinary bird from South-eastern ^q\y Guinea, Paramythia 



