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approach to an easy admission of wanderer waterfowl to 

 the British List is to be deprecated.] 



[As recorded in the Bnll. B.O.C., XV., p. 32, Dr. E. 

 Bowdler Sharpe exhibited an Eider Drake which had been 

 shot at Grraemsay, Orkney, in December, 1904, and was 

 suj)posed to be Somateria v-nicjrmn. On this point 

 reference may be made to op. cit., p. 44 and p. 62, infra, 

 and, in my oj)inion, the bird in question was merely a 

 Common Eider which showed more or less of a black 

 chevron on the throat : a mark which was once erroneously 

 supposed to be confined to the bird of the ISTorth Pacific 

 and Behring" Sea. Some important remarks on this 

 subject were made at the British Ornithologists' Club, on 

 May 1.5th, 1907 (Bull., XIX., p. 80).] 



XVII. — The Black-winged Pratincole. 



Glareola melanoptera, Nordmann. 



With several individuals of our occasional visitor 

 G. pratincola, some examples of the Eastern form seem to 

 have joined company. One of these, shot in Romney Marsh, 

 on May oOth, 1903, was exhibited by Dr. N. F. Ticehurst; 

 another shot at same j)lace on 17th June, and one from 

 Rye Harbour on 18th June, were shown at the B.O.C. by 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander (Bull., XIII., p. 78; XIV., p. 17). 

 According to Mr. Dresser, this species is found in Russia 

 up to about 56° N., and eastward to the Altai range. It 

 differs from G. pratincola chiefly in its darker coloration, 

 jet-black axillaries and under wing coverts, and secondaries 

 untipped with white. 



XVIII. — Baird's Sandpiper. 



Tringa hairdi (Coues). 



At Rye Harbour, on October Uth, 1900, Mr. M. J. McoU 

 noticed and obtained a young female example of this species, 

 subsequently exhibited by Dr. E. Hartert (Bull. B.O.C, 

 XL, p. 27) . Mr. NicoU has informed me that on September 



