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Pyrocephalus dubius. 



The nest of this little bird was a beautiful little fiat 

 structure placed on a fork near the end of a branch, about 

 14 feet from the ground. It was principally composed of 

 Orchilla-moss, with a few weed-stems and two or three pieces 

 of grass. The two eggs were of a rich cream-colour, without 

 gloss, and marked with a ring of dark brown patches and a 

 few underlying pale grey patches near the larger end. They 

 measure 16"8 by 13*4 and 16'7 by 13*2 mm. 



The eggs were taken on Chatham Island, March 15th, by 

 R. H. Beck. 



Nesomimus adamsi. 



Nests and eggs similar to the species of the genus Mimus, 

 from which Mr. Rothschild considered Nesomimus to be 

 hardly separable as a genus. The nests were placed in trees, 

 the present one having been taken at a height of 12 feet from 

 the ground. It consisted of Otxhil/a-moss, dry weeds, and 

 grass-stems, and rested on a foundation of twigs. The eggs 

 were four in number; they resembled small Blackbirds' eggs 

 and were greenish, more or less heavily marked with reddish- 

 brown patches and spots and underlying ones of a mauve 

 colour. 



Measurements :— 26*3 by 19'5, 25-5 by 19"7, 24'6 by 19G, 

 and 25 by 19"6 mm. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild also exhibited the type 

 of the species of Paradiseida described by him in a recent 

 number of the 'Bulletin,' viz. Loborhamphus nobilis, and also 

 Parotia duivenbodei. 



Mr. Rothschild further exhibited a very remarkable 

 variety of Eclectus roratus. This bird had the back, right 

 wing, and right side of head and neck maroon-ciimson, most 

 of the feathers edged with green, the left wing and left side 

 green with maroon-red bases to the feathers, the breast and 

 abdomen mixed green and purplish blue. Although the 

 colours were thus somewhat varied, the general appearance 

 was red on the right and green on the left half of the bird. 

 It was therefore probably an hermaphrodite, or else a very 



