602 Mr. H. A. Macpherson on a 



Coll.), Teita {H. C. V. Hunter), Somali-Land {E. Lort 

 Phillips) . 



P. poliocephalus. Abyssinia {Shelley Coll.), White Nile 

 {Mus. Brit.), Wandi {Emin Pasha). 



109. Bradyornis grisea. 



Bradyornis grisea, lleiclien. ; Fisclier, Zeitsclir. i. p. 354 

 (Dongo Ngai, Great Arusclia). 



No. 185. c? ad. Turquel, Suk, Jan. 19, 1890.— Irides brown; 

 legs black. 



I compared Mr. Jackson's specimen with authentic ex- 

 amples of B. grisea in the Berlin Museum, 



110. Mel^nornis edoloides. 



Melanornis edoloides (Swains.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 iii. p. 315; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 128 (1884; 

 Shoa). 

 No. 2. Uganda, May 16, 1890.— Irides brown. 



Dr. Cabanis (J. f. O. 1884, p. 241) separates the Melcen- 

 ornis from North-eastern Africa as M.pammelana (Stanley), 

 but I cannot find the least difference between Mr. Jackson's 

 Uganda specimen and the West-African series of M. edolioides 

 in the British Museum. 



XLVIII. — On Pelagodroma marina, a Petrel new to the 

 British List. By H. A. Macpherson, M.A. 



I HAVE great pleasure in adding to the British List a well- 

 known Petrel, Pelagodroma marina, on the strength of a 

 specimen obtained recently on the north-west coast of 

 England. After a severe gale, in November 1890, a number 

 of sea-birds which had been washed up dead on the outside 

 of Walney Island were collected and taken to Williams, a 

 working blacksmith, of Barrow-in-Furness. It was Williams 

 who received the Spotted Eagle which was washed ashore at 

 Walney in 1875 {of. Mitchell, ' Birds of Lancashire,' p. 109), 

 and I know that he has always been in the habit of stuffing 

 a few of these birds; for example, when visiting him in 



