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on the contrary characterized districts by their absence as 

 '• Lipomorphs.'''" Thus, in the class of Birds. Struthio and 

 Iitdicafor were topomorphs of the Ethiopian Region, and 

 B/ita of the Neotropical Pocgion. In the Australian Rea:ion 

 the family of Woodpeckers (PicidcB) was a lipomorph, and 

 Mcnura vras a toporaorph, &c. 



1\lv. ScLATLK called attention to the issue of the first part 

 of the division Aves (edited by Dr. Reichenow) of 'Das 

 Tierreicb.' It contained the Podargida, Cuprbmdgida, and 

 jj'acropierygidcZi, an excellent synopsis of vs-hich three 

 families, together v\'ith an index, had been compressed by 

 i\Ir. Hartert, the author of tins section, into ninety-eight 

 pages. Mr. Sclater lamented the use of the German lan- 

 guage" in this great undertaking, as it would render the book 

 almost useless to many ornithologists in England and the 

 United States. It would, in his opinion, have 'been much 

 better to have employed Latin — the universal language 

 of science, known to every properly educated person in the 

 world — in a work of this cosmopolitan character. 



The next jNIeeting of the Club will take place on Wednes- 

 day, the 21st of April, 1897, at the Restaurant Frascati, 

 3.2 Oxford Street ; the Dinner at 7 p.m. 



(Signed) 



R, BowDLEK Sharfe, Howard Saunders, 



Editor. Sec. 6.- Treas. 



