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p. 279). A fourth, ill the Hon. Walter Rothschild's collection 

 at Tring. \v:is procured bySchimper and Baron von Miiller, and 

 was labelled "Nubia" (see Hartertj ' Novitates Zoologicae/ 

 vol. i. \\ 3). 



Mr. T. Parkin made some observations on the abuudance 

 of bird-life noticed by him in the Southern Oceans. 



The following was the list of birds obtained during a day's 

 shooting in a calm on December 2nd, 1890, iu the Cape 

 Seas, when on a voyage to iVustralia in the clipper ship 

 ' SobraoUj' South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 39° 51' S., long. 

 8° 49' E. 



*7 Wandering Albatrosses {Diomedea e.ni.latts) . 

 2 Black-eyebrowed Albatrosses [D. melauophrys). 

 6 Culminated Al!)atrosses [Thahissogeron culminatus) . 

 1 Yellow-nosed Albatross {T. chlororhyyichus) . 

 I Great Grey Petrel [Priofinus cincreus). 

 1 Silver-grey Petrel [Priocetla glacialoides). 

 1 Great Black Petrel {Majaqueus cequinoctialis) . 



1 Brown Petrel {(Estrelata incerta) ? 



2 Soft-plumaged Petrels {(Estrelata mollis). 



2 Yellow-weI)bed Storm-Petrels (Wilson's) {Oceanites 



oceanicus). 

 2 Black-billed Storm-Petrels [Cymodroma vielanogaster) . 

 1 White-billed Storm-Petrel [C. grail uriu). 

 6 Dove like Prions [Prion desolulus). 



Mr. W. P. Pycraft gave a brief summary of the results 

 of his recent investigations in the Morphology of the 

 Ratitse, and suggested a new basis of classification for this 

 group. Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe and the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild took part in the discussion which followed. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant sent a description of a new 

 species of Stone-Pheasant collected by Lord Delamere in 



« The Wandering Albatrosses were all I), exulans, and, so far as my 

 memory goes, none of them could come under the head of D. regia. — T. P. 



