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announced, with much regret, the death of a member of the 

 Club, the well-known artist Mr. Edward Neale, of 43 Char- 

 lotte Street, Portland Place, which occurred on Friday the 

 11th inst. All lovers of bird- and animal-life were no doubt 

 acquainted with his drawings which illustrated the late 

 E. T. Booth's ' Rough Notes/ He was also connected with 

 the late Lord Lilford's ' Coloured Figures of British Birds ' 

 and Mr. H. E. Dresser's 'Birds of Europe,' as well as with 

 many other works on natural history. It may be added that 

 he was a favourite pupil of the late Joseph Wolf, the 

 well-known founder of the school from which so many 

 celebrated artists had originated, and of which, it was no 

 exaggeration to say, he was not the least talented exponent. 



It was unanimously agreed that a letter of condolence 

 should be sent from the members of the Club to the nearest 

 relatives of the late Mr. Neale. 



On behalf of Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (who was unfortunately 

 unable to be present), Dr. Sclater exhibited specimens of 

 two new species of birds discovered during the voyage of the 

 Antarctic ship ' Scotia/ and read the following descrip- 

 tions : — 



1. Nesospiza goughensis, n. sp. 



General colour of upper- and under-parts olive-green, 

 tinged with silvery grey. The middle of the abdomen, under 

 tail-coverts, a stripe from the forehead to behind the eye, and 

 the malar streak olive-yellow ; chin, throat and lores black ; 

 primaries and secondaries dusky, with silvery-grey tips and 

 the outer webs margined with bright olive-green ; middle 

 tail-feathers olive-green, the rest grey margined and tinged 

 with green : bill and feet, in life, clove-brown. Wing 

 4'15 inches, tail 368, tarsus 1'18, culmen 071. 



Hab. Gough Island, 200 miles south of Tristan da Cunha. 



2. Nesospiza jessi^e, n. sp. 



Above tawny ochraceous streaked with black ; under 

 surface orange-buff, streaked with black on the breast and 



