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that he had found in the museum at Leyden a new species of chionis, 

 " patrie inconnue," He called it Chionis minor, and distinguished it 

 from Forster's Chionis alba, described in 1788, as being of smaller 

 size, having a black bill and sheath, and a fleshy process of the same 

 color over the eye. He also noted the color of the thickened eyelid 

 and of the legs, and gave measurements of the principal dimensions. 

 In 1842 * appeared in the same journal a draAving of the head of the 

 Leyden specimen, also from Dr. Hartlaub. 



In 1849 it was figured by G, R. Gray,^ being classed by him with 

 the Gallince or fowl order, and associated with two other curious ant- 



Fia. 3. Bill of Chionis, with Frontal Feathers cut away, to show the Caruncle. 



arctic genera, called Thinocorus and Attagis. It would seem proba- 

 ble that Gray's drawing was made from the Leyden specimen also, 

 since I have been able to find a record of only three other individu- 

 als (besides the eleven specimens brought to the National Museum 

 by myself), all of which were sent to the Zoological Society. These 

 were : a living specimen sent from Cape Town by Mr. Layard, of 

 which the skin was exhibited to the society by Mr. Sclater, November 

 28, 1867 ; ' and two skins received October 26, 1868,' also from Mr. 

 Layard. All three of these specimens came originally from the Crozet 

 Islands, which lie about six hundred miles to the west of Kerguelen, 

 and present substantially the same natural history characteristics. 



' Kevtie Zoologique, 1842, pi. 2, Fig. 2. " " Genera of Birds," 1849, p. 522. 



3 " Proceedings of Zoological Society," 1867. " Ibid., 1868. 



