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Yol. X.] 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe also alluded to the untimely death 
of Colonel Henry P. Northeott, during the first battle on 
the Modder Elver. A list of the birds obtained by the 
deeeased officer in the hinterland of the Gold Coast had 
recently appeared in the 'Bulletin^ {antea, 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 : — 
PVTELIA ANSORGEI, Sp. 11. 
ad. Upper surface yellowish olive, rather greener on 
the wings ; head black ; quills blackish, externally olive- 
green ; tail-feathers black,^ tlie 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. 
Hab. Wemo River, Torn, 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 
