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Mr. O. T. Baron had recently submitted to Mr. Salvin 

 beautifully prepared specimens of both sexes of each of these 

 species, -which are quite distinct from any of the other species 

 known to him. Both of them belong to the same section of 

 the genus as J/, primolina. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe proposed the following new genera 

 for the Otides or Bustards : — 



Heterotis, gen. n. Simile generi " Compsotis " dicto, sed 

 tarso brevi distinguendum. 



Typus est Heterotis vigorsi (Smith). 



Other species belonging to this new genus were H. rueppeUi 

 (Wahlb.) and H. humilis (Blyth^. 



Neotis, gen. n. Simile generi " Lissotis" dicto, sed rostro 

 longiore, culmine digitum medium cum ungue excedente. 

 Typus est Neotis luchvigi (Riipp) . 



Other species of this genus were N. burcheUi (Heugl.), 

 A^. denhami (Childr.), N. caffra (Licht.), and N. heuglini 

 (Hartl.). 



HouBAROPsis, gen. n. Simile generi '' Houbara" dicto, sed 

 plumis jugularibus valde elongatis, pileo nuchaque aliter 

 cristatis, tarsis longissimis distinguendum. 



Typus est Houbaropsis bengalensis (Gm.). 



The Hon. "Walter Rothschild exhibited a tine pair of 

 Paradisea gidielmi secundi from Kaiser Wilhelm's Land in 

 N.E. New Guinea. 



Mr. H. O. Forbes wished to make a correction with 

 reference to the genus he had described at a former Meeting 

 of the B. O. C. as Biaphorapteryx. He had accepted the 

 opinion of Prof. Newton that the remains from ^lauritius 

 and those from the Chatham Islands belonged to distinct 

 genera, and adopted his suggestion of the name Diaphor- 

 apteryx ; but after personally examining the ^^lauritian re- 

 mains at Cambridge, Mr. Forbes could not see his way 

 to agree that the two forms were generi cally different. He 

 was therefore constrained to discard his new genus and to 



