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THE HUMMING BIRD. 



\ August i, 1 89 1 



Royal Aquarium. 



On Wednesday the 8th day of July, was held an 

 Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society, in the 

 Theatre of the Royal Aquarium. 



This meeting was convened at the requisition of 

 welve Shareholders, holding over 5000 Shares. 



1 st. To consider the present position and manage- 

 ment of the Society, its business and affairs. 



2nd. To increase the number of Directors from 

 four as at present, to seven or such other number 

 as the Meeting may determine, and for such purpose 

 :o repeal or alter any previous Resolution of the 

 Society. 



3rd. To elect the additional Directors and to de- 

 termine in what rotation they shall go out of office. 

 4th. To call upon Captain Molesworth to resign 

 lis present position of Director, and in the event of 

 his so resigning to fill up the vacancy to be thereby 

 created. 



5th. To do all such other acts and to pass such 

 Resolutions as may be necessary or expedient to 

 give effect to all orany of the foregoing Resolutions. 

 The meeting lasted from 2 to 5. It was rather 

 stormy ; but eventually Resolutions 2 and 3 were 

 passed by a great majority. Messrs. Henry S. 

 Dominy, Chas. Critchett, and Geo. Moss, were 

 elected Directors. It is to be hoped now, that with 

 such a board of Directors, the affairs of the Society 

 will improve in a manner that will enable the Society 

 to pay a fair dividend to the Shareholders ; but I am 

 still of the same opinion as before, that it is vital 

 to the Society to secure a competent Manager if it 

 can be had. In so doing, the property of the 

 Society will become a valuable one, and the Board 

 will secure the approbation and thanks of all the 

 Shareholders. 



The Editor. 



Review of New Scientific Books. 



Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum 

 Vol. XIX. in 4to, 484 pages, London 1891. 

 Price 25 Shillings. 



This interesting volume, on Scansores and Coccyges, 

 contains the families Ramphastidae, Galbulidae and 

 Bucconidae, by P. L. Sclater, the families Indicatoridae, 

 Capitonidae, Cuculidae and Musophagidae, by G. E. 

 Shelley. In it, are the descriptions of eleven species 

 of Indicatoridae, one hundred and eleven species of 

 Capitonidae, fifty-nine of Ramphastidae, twenty one 

 species of Galbulidae, forty three species of Bucconidae, 

 one hundred and sixty species of Cuculidae, and 

 twenty-five species of Musophagidae. Twenty-five 

 species are figured in the thirteen coloured plates, 

 ending the volume. They are Melanobuco aequatorialis, 

 Tricholœma, stigmathorax and affine, Barbatula chry- 

 sopyga and bilineaia, heads of Cyanops davisoni, ram- 

 sayi, and incognita, Capito, versicolor, steerii, richard- 

 soni, salvini, granadensis and bourcieri, full birds ol 

 Pteroglossus didymus, Aulacoramphus erythrognathus, 

 calorhynchus, whitelyanus, and cyanoloemus, Coccystes 

 caroli and hypopinarius Centropus, purpureus, heads of 

 Coccysm dominiaZf minor, and maynardi. 



Catalogue of the Fossil, Birds in the British 

 Museum, by Richard Lydekker, 1 Vol. in4°, 364 pages 

 75 Wood Cuts, London 1891, Price 10 Shillings. 



This remsrkable volume includes the whole of the 

 extinct birds, known at present (with the exception of 

 those belonging to the suborders PasseresandPicaridae) 

 from the Tertiaries of Europe, which have received 

 distinct specific names and have been described or 

 figured with sufficient exactness to entitle them to rank 

 as species. 



The classification followed is partly that of Prof. 

 Alfred Newton in his article, Ornithology (Encyclop e- 

 dia britannica) and also that of Professor Huxl ey, as 

 under : — 



Ordo I. CARINATyE. 



Suborder I. Passeres, Family Corvidae. 



Suborder TI. Picarle, 



Suborder III. Psittaci. Families Stringopidas, 

 Psittacidae. 



Suborder IV. Striges. Family Strigidae. 



Suborder V. Accipitres, Families Falconidae, 

 Serpentariidae, Cathartidae. 



Suborder VI. Steganopodes, Families Pelecanidae, 

 Phalacrocoracidae, Odontopterygidae. 



Suborder VII. Herodiones, Families Ardeidae, 

 Ciconiidae Plataleidae. 



Suborder VIII. Odontoglossi, Family Phcenic- 

 opteridae. 



Suborder IX. Anseres, Family Anatidae. 



Suborder X. Columb^e, Families Columbidae, 

 Dididae, Pteroclidaa. 



Suborder XL Galling, Families Phasianidae, 

 Megapodidae. 



Suborder XII. Fulicaridae, Family Rallidae. 



Suborder XIII. Alectorides, Families Gruidae, 

 Otididae. 



Suborder XIV. Limicolae, Family Scolopacidae. 



Suborder XV. Gavi>e, Families Laridae, Aegial- 

 ornithidae. 



Suborder XVI. Tubinares, Family Procellariidae. 



Suborder XVII. Pygopodes, Families Colymbidae, 

 Alcidae. 



Suborder XVIII. Impennes, Family Spheniscidae. 



SuborderXIX Odontorm^e, Family Ichthyornithidse. 



Suborder XX. Odontolc.<e, Families Enaliornithidae, 

 Hesperornithidae. 



Ordo IL RATIT.E. 



Families Struthionidas, Aepyornithidae, Apterygidae- 

 Dinornithidae, Casuariidae, Dromornithidae, Gastorn, 

 thidae. 



Ordo III. SAURUR^E. 



Family Archaeopterygidae. 



All Ornithologists should posess these two volumes. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London, 1891, Part I, 178 pages of text, 14 black 

 and coloured plates, figuring a new Lizard of the 

 Genus Ctenoblepharis from Chili, new Bornean Land 

 Shells, Anatomy of Anodon and Unio, new Butterflies 

 from tropical South-western Africa, Abramis blicca, 

 Anatomy of Heloderma, Platycercus erythropeplus, 

 male and female, Phrygilus coracinus, and a supposed 

 Jacobson's Organ in the Crocodilia. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society 01 

 London, Vol. xiii, Parts I. and II. 

 Part i. contains ; — On the Genus Urothœ and a new 



