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coverts, duller and less buff-coloured abdomen, and especially 

 by having the pileum golden-buff, instead of light cinnamon- 

 rufous. Wing 71; tail 53 ; bill 12 mm. 



Hab. Island of Marajo, North Brazil. 



Type in the Zoological ^Museum of Munich. $ vix ad. 

 No. 1910.319. Cachoueira, Rio Arary, Island of Marajo, 

 14. ii. 1 910. Obtained by Prof. Lorenz Muller. 



Obs. The male of this interesting new species is inter- 

 mediate in its affinities between C. cay ana (Linn.), from the 

 Guianas and Venezuela, and C. flava (Gm.), from Eastern 

 Brazil (Bahia to Pernambuco). From the former it differs 

 chiefly in lacking the cinnamon-rufous cap, and in having 

 the throat as well as the middle of the belly blackish ; 

 and from the latter in having the general colour, both above 

 and below, deep ochraceous, and the dark area of the under- 

 parts much deeper and of a more (lead black. From both, 

 C. huberi may also be distinguished by the colour of the 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts, which are whitish-buff in 

 C. cayana, and black in C. flava. 



The new species is named in honour of Dr. Jacques Huber, 

 Director of the Museu Goeldi, Para, who greatly facilitated 

 Mr. Miiller's work during his collecting-trip in Amazonia. 



The Hon. Walter Bothschild exhibited and described 

 a new form of Paradise-bird of the genus Parotia from the 

 Snow Mountains in Dutch New Guinea, which he proposed 

 to name 



Parotia carols meeki, subsp. n. 



Immature male. Differs from P. c. berlepschi, Kleiuschmidt, 

 in having the sides of the crest broadly edged with white 

 from the base of the bill to above the eye. In P. c. ber- 

 lepschi the white edge begins in front of the eye and reaches 

 back to the end of the crest. From P. c. carolcB it differs in 

 having the chin, as well as the upper half and sides of the 

 throat black instead of buff, while in P. c. berlepschi the 

 whole throat is black. 



Adult female. Differs from the female of P. c. carolcs in 

 having the crown and middle of the forehead of a different 



