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hoped that this change would not prove inconvenient to the 

 Members. 



Mi\ E. BiDWELL said that by the death of Captain G. E. 

 Shelley, which took place at Bournemouth on the 28th of 

 November, the Club had lost a valued and popular Member, 

 whose well-known works and papers on the Birds o£ Africa 

 had added so much to the present state of our knowledge. 

 Captain Shelley had been elected to the British Ornitholo- 

 gists^ Union in 1870, and bad joined the Club on its 

 formation in 1892. For some years past he had been an 

 invalid in failing healtli, aT)d it was greatly to be regretted 

 that on that account he had been unable to finish his great 

 work on the ' Birds of Africa.^ It was unanimously agreed 

 tiiat the Secretary should convey the sympathy of the Club 

 to Mrs. S! elley and her family. 



Mr. C. E. Hellmayr sent the description of a new 

 species of Tiinager, which he proposed to call 



Calospiza huberi, sp. n. 



Nearly adult male. Above shining silvery-buif, slightly 

 shaded here and there with greeuish, the fore-part of the 

 crown somewhat darker and of a more golden-buff ; upper 

 tail-coverts dull blue ; lesser and median upper wing-coverts 

 dull indigo-blue with blackish bases ; primary and greater 

 wing-coverts blackish on the inner and dull indigo-blue 

 on the outer web; quills and rectrices blackish, edged 

 exteriorly with greenish-blue ; sides of the head, throat, 

 fore-neck, and a broad area along the middle of the breast 

 and abdomen dull slaty-black, the feathers of the fore-neck 

 and belly with more or less distinct apical edges of indigo- 

 blue ; sides and anal region silvery-buff; under tail-coverts 

 darker and more ochraceous. Axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts smoky-grey, narrowly edged with dull greenish-blue. 

 Bill blackish, under mandible paler. Wing 72; tail 52^; 

 bill 11^ mm. 



Adult female. Similar to that of C. cayana (Linn.), but 

 easily distinguishable by its bluer wings and upper tail- 



