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Dr. Bowdler Sharpe also alluded to the untimely death 

 of Colonel Henry P. Northcott, during the first battle on 

 the Modder River. A list of the birds obtained by the 

 deceased officer in the hinterland of the Gold Coast had 

 recently appeared in the ' Bulletin ' (antect, pp. vi, vii). 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., exhibited a pair of 

 the rare Eupetes geislerorum, A. B. Meyer. 



This species had been described from German New Guinea 

 by Dr. Meyer, and had not before been seen in any English 

 collection, having hitherto been known only from the types 

 in the Dresden Museum. The species was remarkable for 

 the different colour of the sexes ; and examples collected by 

 Mr. A. S. Meek at Collingwood Bay, in the northern portion 

 of British New Guinea, were laid on the table. 



Mr. E. Hartert described a new species of Weaver- 

 Finch from Equatorial Africa as follows : — 



Pytelia ansorgei, sp. n. 



S ad. Upper surface yellowish olive, rather greener on 

 the wings ; head black ; quills blackish, externally olive- 

 green ; tail-feathers black, the outer ones rather more 

 greyish black, the central feathers edged with green towards 

 the base ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dark grey, 

 the sides of the chest yellowish olive; under wing-coverts 

 and inner margins of quills white. 



Hob. Wemo River, Toru, Uganda Protectorate {Dr. 

 Ansorge) . 



Obs. The nearest ally is apparently Pytelia sharpei, but 

 the black head and other differences in the plumage easily 

 distinguish this new species. 



Mr. Hartert also pointed out that, although Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe was undoubtedly right in recognizing three forms of 

 small Melittophagi in Africa, in contrast to the opinion of 

 Mr. Dresser with respect to M. pusillus and its allies, there 

 could be no doubt that the former author had misapplied the 



