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The Chairman briefly alluded to the sad circumstances 

 under which the January Meeting of the Club was necessarily 

 postponed. 



He also drew the attention of the Meeting to the loss 

 which the Club had sustained by the death of Mr. Philip 

 Crowley, who had taken an active part in the welfare of the 

 Club since its foundation, and had acted as Vice-Chairman. 



A vote of condolence with Mr. Crowley's family was 

 unanimously passed. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild and Mr. Ernst Hartert 

 read the following notes : — 



" At the. November Meeting of the B. O. C. we described 

 as new a Flycatcher from New Guinea under the name of 

 Micrceca viridifiava. We find that this is the bird called 

 Pcecilodryas papuana in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' and in the 

 ' Ornithologia della Papuasia/ It is figured on plate viii. 

 of the fourth volume of the ' Catalogue of Birds/ but the 

 figure is not at all good. We doubt the correctness of the 

 placing of this bird in the genus Pcecilodryas, and we call 

 attention to the fact that its original describer, Dr. A. B. 

 Meyer, placed it also in the genus Micrceca. We will not, 

 however, here discuss the vexed question of the supposed 

 genera of the Muscicapidee, which we find in some cases 

 very difficult to separate. 



"In no. 1 (January 1901), p. 4, of the 9th volume of the 

 f Orn. Monatsberichte/ Professor Reichenow described a 

 bird which he named Sericornis salvadurii. The excellent 

 description does not seem to leave any doubt that this is the 

 bird we described as Crateroscelis pectoralis at the November 

 Meeting of this Club. We must admit that the genera 

 Crateroscelis and Sericornis are very closely allied, but we 

 consider our bird certainly to belong to the former, especially 

 on account of its short and soft tail and very long and strong 

 feet and legs. 



" At the December Meeting of this Club Mr. Hartert 

 described a remarkable new Dacnis as Dacnis berlepschi. 

 The specimen was labelled 'male,' but additional material 



