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he had proceeded to Hainan and had started for the interior 

 of the island on the loth of ^larch. In his letter, dated the 

 1st of May, he had reported that he had been very ill and 

 that collecting was almost at a standstill, his entire party 

 having been attacked by fever of a most malignant type. He 

 appeared to have reached the coast, but only to die at Hoihow, 

 and his loss to the scientific world, at the early age of 38, 

 could not be too greatly deplored. A brilliant field-natui-alist, 

 his successes in Corsica, North Borneo, and the Philippine 

 Islands were well known through the pages of ' The Ibis,' 

 and it had been hoped that he would long be spared to con- 

 tinue his useful and interesting career. 



A vote of sympathy with the family of the deceased was 

 unanimously passed. 



Mr. J. L. EoNHOTE exhibited an example of ^Thiais poly- 

 glottus, which he had obtained at Nassau, New Providence. 



This individual diflered from the majority of specimens in 

 the British Museum in having dark bases to the three outer 

 pairs of tail-feathers. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander exhibited male and female examples 

 of a new species of Sun-bird which he had obtained near the 

 Kaf ui River, South Af jica. He proposed to call this species : — 



ClXNYRlS SHELLEYI, ?p. n. 



Adult male. Entire head, neck, back, and lesser wing- 

 coverts metallic gveen, a slight golden gloss ou the back of the 

 head, neck, and mantle; winics and tail black. At the base 

 of the metailic-grcen throat is a narrow steel-blue collar, 

 followed by a broad bright scarlet pectoral band, the feathers 

 of which are partially barred with steel-blue; remainder of 

 the underparts blackish brown. Bill and legs black : iris 

 dark brown. Total length 4-(35 inches, culmeu 0-85, wing S'o, 

 tail 1"7, tarsus 0"()5. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to that of C. mariquensis, 

 but more yellow and less mottled with dusky on the under- 

 parts. Total length 4-5G inches, culmen 0'85, wing 2'-i, tail 

 1-7, tarsus 0"65. 



