3IO lircrul Liter, ttio-c. | j.ilv 



third place, I have before me seven specimens collected bj Swiiiboe in 

 China and one from Japan determined by him; these are all true Cli. fnl- 

 r'lis as will be seen from the accompanying measurements, l)ut the conclu- 

 sive part of it is that the first and the last specimens of the series measuretl 

 are determined by Swinhoe as C//. virffinicns, this name being written on 

 the labels in his own handwriting, while the others arc named C/i. fiilvii^. 



I ma>' finally mention that one of the stray migrants of Ch. (foiii/i/inis 

 to be expected on the route of C//. fiih'/isi seems to have been capluied bv 

 the 'Vettor Pisani' party in Olga 15ay, (Julf of Tartary, September, 1879 

 (Giglioli and Salvadori, P. Z. S , 1S87, p. 5S5 ; jiubl. 1S8S). The wing of 

 this specimen measured iSo mm., and consequently' is considerably larger 

 than the average C//. ////-;«.< but there is a probability that some of the 

 large specimens of East-Asiatic Golden Plovers may not be pure-l)red, as 

 interbreeding between the two so closely allied forms is almost certain to 

 take place where their ranges meet. 



In regard to the Griis mentioned on p. 348 as ha\ing been taken "to 

 the north of Jakutsk," on Mr. Taczanowski's authority-. 1 may remark that 

 the latter gentlemen has afterwards specified the locality as being "Cap 

 Tschukotsk" (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 246) whence came also 

 the speciiTicns of Tiirdiis alicice and Macroram phns quoted by him (A c. 

 pp. 148, 255). 



I am pleased to see that Prof. Palmeii has arrived cpiitc independently 

 at the same results in regard to Rissd poll/cai is as m^-self. The North 

 Pacific Kittiwake is certainly more distinct than has formerly been sup- 

 posed, and there is no good reason for including the true R. tri(hirtyl<i 

 among the birds of that region. 



On page 370 Prof. Palmen describes a new subspecies of the Herring 

 Gull as Lams argentatus var. veffce, "characterized by a particularly dark 

 gull-gray mantle and flesh-colored legs," from the countries bordering on 

 Bering Sea and adjacent waters. There is no doubt in n\y mind that this 

 is the bird which North American ornithologists (including A. O. U. 

 Check List) call Larits cacliinjuDis 'Pallas," and I have always had a 

 suspicion that the color of the feet of this bird as given in North Amcr- 

 ion publications was erroneous, it being in most cases stated to be yellow, 

 and my suspicion has been confirmed by the fact that Mr. P. L. Jouy in 

 his ms. catalogue gives the color of feet of two specimens from Japan 

 (Jouy, Nos. 1030, 1031) otherwise indistinguishable from L. cacliinnans 

 Auct. Ainer. as "very pale flesh color." The Mediterranean bird, on the 

 other hand, is known to have yellow feet, and as Pallas describes his L. 

 carhiiiuans^?^ having "pedes pallide flavescentes" (Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. 

 319), with the principal habitat "Mare Caspium," while he does not men- 

 tion it as occurring in the Pacific, it seems as if Palmen were right in 

 giving the fonri from the North Pacific a new name. I am not prcparctl, 

 however, to accept as yet a trinominal appellation, as the true status and 

 relationship of the present Gull are not well established, anil pro]>ose to 

 recognize it as Lams vcgcr. (Palmen). 



Had Palmen consulted my 'Remarks on the species of the Genus Ccp- 



