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s .-uvi to have boon accidentally introduced >s now well established at Hong 

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\ Reference I isi of the R N ■•« Zealand. Part I !>\ Gregory 



M MrJvu., fund lorn livdalo This is a thorough revision of Now 

 uul birds with tho nomenclature brought into conformity with tho 

 Internationa] Code, and with the extreme generic subdivision which the 

 authors favor Numerous notes and explanations, and the more important 

 nyms .uv given under each species \\ e note as now forms 

 S .i riltata boUom and iS 

 while many other forms here recognised have been described by Mr. 

 Mathews in recent nurabersof his Birds of Australia* etc rhetypesof all 

 the genera are definitely' cited following the mot hod of the third edition of 

 \ »* I Check 1 -■. !' |»s wt note is used for the Grebes on the 

 claim that Gray's selection ol I s l inn. as the type 



I. in-. 1766 fixes the latter genus on t ho Loons So far as we 



oan soo Mr Mathews argument is sound and it is surprising thai Graj s 

 change of t> pe in the 1855 edition of Ins l isi ol Genera ' should have boon 

 entirely overlooked. 



Further Notes on the Birds of China Bj J P P La Touch* I 

 sistao . Unions to the list of Birds of Chinkiang and additional obi 

 vations on the birds of Fohkien rwo specimens of the so-called .' 



Martens, previously known from the unique type, were obtained 

 at Eiuatun, north-wost Fohkien, and the female is described forthefirsl time. 

 \ Observations on a Guan s suggested by an 



Ebcamination of an Immature specimen H> Perc) R Lowe This is a 

 N , p paper in which the theory is advanced that theGuansrepre- 



gallinaeeous bird in which the change from an arboreal to a 

 terrestrial life has never been successful!} completed. The young are shown 

 to be remarkably well developed when hatched and are in most reap* - 

 liko terrestrial galhnacee, though certain characters indioa 



I life which the adults still follow Mr Lowe 

 pres arguments against the possibility of this being a ' 



or return to the arboreal life. 



1 inn. and on iho Name of the Common Torn By 

 .ios that Linmeus referred to t ho Common Tern 

 and not t ho Arctic as has been s 



Obituary) ' \ VVilson who perish* lonC 



Antarctic Expedition and Dr. Robert Collett. The former, by tho ? 

 was a great nephew of Dr fnos B \\ »lson at one time president of tho 

 \ ..,-., j . Natural Sciences of Philadelphia well known as a benefaetoi 

 of that institution and an associate of John Cassin. 

 Under ' Letters etc.' there is a strong reply to Dr. Sclater's oruioism of 



tho now British Hand I is >J - authors. 



Bulletin Of tho British Ornithologists' Club V CI WW 



i Bdrtsd &i ^ v R. OflMaGran* Pubktafcad b> Wtthwtoa .v Oc SM Hi^u tiou 

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