VI 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited eggs of two species of Macaw, 

 Ara militaris aud A. ararauna, which had been laid in the 

 aviaries of Mr. H. H. Sharland, F.Z.S., at La Fontaine, 

 Tuurs, the former in June 1890 and the latter in July 189-i. 

 They were pure white and of the usual glossy texture of 

 other eggs of the Psittacidte. 



]\Ir. ScLATER exhibited a skin of Wilson^s Phalarope 

 [Phalaropus wilsoni), belonging to a collection of skins which 

 had been recently received from the Falkland Islands by the 

 University College Museum, Dundee, and had been kindly 

 submitted to him for examination by Prof. dWrcy Thompson. 

 This wastlie first record of the occurrence of this bird in the 

 Falkland Islands, although it had been met with by Durnford 

 in 1876 as far south as the Chupat Valley in Patagonia (Scl. 

 & Huds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 281), and was also known to occur 

 in Chili. 



Mr. J. J. Pearson exhibited an egg-blowing apparatus, 

 with which he had obtained the best results during his recent 

 visit to Iceland. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, sent the following descrip- 

 tions of a new Parrot and a new Bird of Paradise, which he 

 intended to describe in detail and to figure elsewhere : — 



MiCROGLOSSUS SALVADORIj sp. u. 



Fi£in.'i Forma M. aterrimi (Gra.), sed primulaceo-flavus : 

 subtiis anguste^ supra late nigro fasciatus : alis et cam la 

 reliqua plus minusve nigro irroratis : capite cri.^taque 

 viridi-atris, irregulariter fasciatim pallidissime flavo 

 si""natis et maculatis : maxilla fusca, apice pallido, 

 mandibula albescenti : pedibus nigris. Long. tot. c. 

 550 milJim., al. 370, caud. 275, crist. 130, rostr. culm. 

 c. 75, max. alt. 40, mand. alt. 36^ max. lat. ad has. 26, 

 raand. lat. ad bas. 36, tars. 20. 



Hub. Nova Guinea, in montibus Arfak. 



Parotia carol.e, sp. n. 

 Mas. Similis P. scspuani (Bodd,), scd multo minor et ab eu 



