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parts being olive-green in the other species, and in having 

 a broad band of fine orange-yellow on the breast, there 

 being but a small yellow spot in the middle of the latter in 



B. edwardsi. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert drew attention to the fact that 

 there was in the British Isles a species of Tit hitherto 

 overlooked by all observers. This was the Parus scdicarias of 



C. L. Brehm, which had been only quite recently rediscovered 

 in Grermany by Herr Kleinschmidt, who had not only 

 found old specimens in the British Museum, but the Tring 

 Museum had recently been able to get several fresh speci- 

 mens from England. Parus saUcarius differed from the 

 Common British Marsh-Tit in having the crown of a less 

 glossy and more brownish blacky the flanks strongly washed 

 with rufous, and the dimensions of beak, wings, and tail 

 were slightly different ; its cali:'-note also was different, and 

 it seemed to keep strictly to dark, shadowy, and swampy 

 places. These differences were, as Kleinschmidt rightly 

 said, comparatively not smaller than those between a Carrion- 

 Crow and a Rook, which nobody now thought of uniting. 

 It was Mr. Harterf's opinion that P. salicarius was a 

 distinct species-; but Kleinschmidt seemed to think that the 

 British P. salicarius might be superficially separated from 

 the continental form ; this, however, seemed still an open 

 question. 



Mr. Hartert further exhibited a skin of the beautiful 

 Pigeon called Oscidatia purpurea, Salvad,, from N. Ecuador. 

 Only the type in the British Museum was hitherto known. 



He also stated that Mr. Albert Meek had found Paradisea 

 intermedia at Colling wood Bay in tiie north-eastern part 

 of British New Guinea ; and that Mr. Rothschild had 

 received some more skins of Mac'jregoria pvlchra from 

 Mt. Scratchley. 



He also exhil)itcd a skin of a new species of Tephras from 



