grcyisli brown. Flauks^ aljclomeiij and vent pale brown^ 

 centre of feathers palei'. 



"Female. Upper surface umber-brow^u^ each feather 

 bordered -vritli xery dark b]'0^vn : \rings and tail similar. 

 Under sui'facebuffy grey, the feathers edged with pale brown. 



'''Total length about -i inches, culmen 0*6, wing 1'8 to 

 ] "9, tail 0'8, but much coiicealed ; tarsus 075, middle toe 

 O'Goj hind toe without claw 0'5. 



'^ Hdhitut. Stephens Island, Kew Zealand. Discovered 

 by ]\Ir. 1), Lyail, lighthouse-keeper, and sent to me by 

 Mr. Hein-y PI. Trovers," 



Mr. KoTHSCHiLD also sent for exhibition one of the two 

 typical specimens of Cruspedoijhora maatoai, Oast. He 

 wished to call attention to the fact that it agrees in the minutest 

 details with j\Ir. J. Biittikofer's recently described C. brnyni, 

 and that there could be no doubt of the two species being 

 identical. C raantom was admii'ably figured by Keulemaus 

 iu the ' Noavelles Archives du Museum d^Histoire Naturelle,' 

 Paris (vol. iv. pi. 15). 



Dr. A. B. Meyer sent a diagnosis, accompanied by a 

 coloured sketch, of a remarkable new genus and species of 

 Bird of Paradise, which would be described later on by him 

 in detail and figured elsewhere : — ' 



Pteridophoea, gen. uov. Paradiseidarum. 

 (77x6/3/9= filix, 4'ip€Lv = ferre.) 

 Capite utrinque scapo paradoxo, valde elongato, filicis fiabelli 

 uniseriati instar transf ormato, lobis jDlurimis, corio simi- 

 libus, munito. Eostro turdino, recto, angusto : alis 

 brevibus, remige primo dimidiam partem secundi supe- 

 rante, tertio, quarto, quinto, sexto longioribus, quarto 

 longissimo : cauda mediocj'i, a^quali : pedibus medio- 

 cribus. Statura minore quam in genere Lophorhina. 



Pteridophora alberti, sp. n. 



Mas. • Supra velntino-nigra, plus minusve olivaceo-nitens, 



plumis sincipitis elongatis, utriuque productis : capite 



lateribus supra oculos scapo, corpore fere duplo longiore, 



lobis 37-38 ornato, supra colore lloris myosotidis, subtus 



