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and may be characterized as new to science with the fol- 

 lowing diagnosis : — 



Anser neglectus, milii. (Plate II.) 

 Ab A. brachyrhyncho statura majore, rostro longiore et 

 graciliore, secundariorum tectricibus atro-fuscis, tectri- 

 cibus carpi discoloribus : ab A. segetum pedibus zonaque 

 rostri incarnatis distinguendus. 

 Hab. Ufa, Rossia orientalis. 



The specimens of this Goose were all obtained in the 

 government of Ufa, on Lake Thoungak. On migration 

 this species visits the above-named district in very large 

 flocks, and by means of binoculars it was easy to deter- 

 mine that A. segetum was very rare among the flocks of 

 A. neglectus. The Tatars and Bashkirs are quite familiar 

 with the form now described, but the true A. segetum with 

 orange feet and bill is unknown to most of them. Unfor- 

 tunately I cannot communicate any information on the 

 breeding-localities of this new species. I am told by 

 Mr. Nazarow that a Goose with pink feet and a pink band 

 on the bill breeds in the northern parts of the district of 

 Turgaisk, but I am not sure that this information has 

 any relation to A. neglectus. 



III. — Field-Notes on the Birds of Chili. By Ambrose A. Lane. 

 With an Introduction and Remarks by P. L. Sclater. 



I. Introductory Remarks. 

 In the notice of the late Mr. H. B. James, contained in 

 'The Ibis' for 1893 (p. 1G4), it was mentioned that in 1889 

 James, who, along with me, had planned a work on Chilian 

 birds to correspond with ' Argentine Ornithology,' sent out 

 a collector to Chili in order to increase his series of the 

 birds and eggs of that country. Acting under James's 

 instructions, Mr. Ambrose A. Lane went first to Tarapaca, 

 the new northern province of the Chilian Republic, and 

 subsequently south to Arauco and Valdivia, but was unfor- 

 tunately driven home by the outbreak of the revolution 



