p. u r. L E T I X 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



lO-o. XI*V. 



The fortr-fourth meeting; of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on AVednesday^ the 

 19th of :^Iay, 1897. 



Chairmav : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Vice- Chairman : P. Crowley, 



Members present: — E. Bidwell, W. E. De Winton, 

 Dr. F. Drewitt, E. Hartert, G. E. Lodge, Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart., M.P., R. Nesham, E. W. Gates, F. Penrose, 

 E.LoRT Phillips, R.BowDLER Sharpe {iif/ii;or),E. Cavendish 

 Taylor, W. B. Tegetmeier, N. F. Ticehurst, H. M. Upcher, 

 H. M. Wallis, W. Watkins, L. P. Williams, C. A. Wright. 



Visitors : F. Curtis, E. A. Fitch, A. J. Fitch, Donaldson 

 GuNN, Arthur Holland, F. C. Selous, H. E. S. Upcher. 



Dr. F. Penrose alluded to the loss which tlie Club had 

 recently sustained by the death of its ^Member, C. Bygrave 

 Wharton. 



The Hon. Walter PcOTHschild sent some skins of the 

 common Yellow-plumed Bird of Paradise {Paradisea minor, 

 Shaw), of which he recognized three sub-sjiecies. The typical 

 form inhabited Dutch iS'ew Guinea, and he possessed a good 

 series from Arfak, Etna Bay, and Kapaur. It was a small 

 bird, with the wing about 177-189 mm., the tail 130-186, 

 the ornamental plumes from 400 to 460 mm. 



[May 99th. 1897.] 



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