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  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Howard 
  Saunders 
  exhibited 
  a 
  mature 
  male 
  Scoter 
  

   [CEdemia 
  nigra), 
  shot 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Chas. 
  Fowler, 
  of 
  Chichester, 
  

   in 
  August 
  1891. 
  Mr. 
  Fowler 
  stated 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  seen 
  the 
  

   two 
  old 
  birds, 
  off 
  and 
  on, 
  all 
  the 
  summer, 
  without 
  thiuking 
  

   of 
  the 
  probability 
  of 
  their 
  breeding 
  ; 
  but 
  that 
  early 
  in 
  August 
  

   he 
  had 
  come 
  upon 
  them 
  with 
  a 
  brood 
  of 
  seven 
  nestlings 
  just 
  

   able 
  to 
  fly 
  a 
  short 
  distance, 
  and 
  had 
  shot 
  the 
  drake 
  (see 
  Zool. 
  

   189.2, 
  pp. 
  151, 
  228). 
  On 
  making 
  inquiries 
  he 
  was 
  told 
  that 
  

   the 
  Scoter 
  nested 
  in 
  Earnsley 
  Marshes 
  every 
  year. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  ScLATER 
  exhibited 
  a 
  prepared 
  wing 
  and 
  tail 
  of 
  the 
  

   Martineta 
  Tinamou 
  [Calodromas 
  elegans), 
  and 
  pointed 
  out 
  

   that 
  this 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  Tinamidse 
  had 
  12 
  rectrices, 
  although 
  

   these 
  feathers 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  discriminated 
  from 
  the 
  adjacent 
  

   coverts 
  without 
  careful 
  examination. 
  

  

  There 
  were 
  10 
  raetacarpo-digitals 
  and 
  15 
  cubitals 
  in 
  the 
  

   wing. 
  The 
  fifth 
  cubital 
  remex 
  was 
  present 
  and 
  well 
  deve- 
  

   loped, 
  as 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  Tinami 
  (see 
  'Ibis/ 
  1890, 
  p. 
  82). 
  There 
  

   were 
  3 
  feathers 
  on 
  the 
  pollex 
  {alula 
  spuria) 
  . 
  

  

  Mr. 
  ScLATER 
  read 
  an 
  extract 
  from 
  a 
  letter 
  addressed 
  to 
  

   him 
  by 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  Hartlaub, 
  in 
  which 
  Dr. 
  Hartlaub 
  pointed 
  out 
  

   that 
  Dr. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  was 
  in 
  error 
  in 
  suggesting 
  (Bull. 
  

   B. 
  O. 
  C. 
  iv. 
  p. 
  xx) 
  that 
  Pennula 
  ecaudata 
  (King) 
  and 
  P. 
  

   sandivichensis 
  (Gm.) 
  were 
  identical. 
  Dr. 
  Hartlaub 
  had 
  com- 
  

   pared 
  the 
  Cambridge 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  with 
  the 
  Leyden 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  the 
  latter, 
  and 
  had 
  found 
  them 
  distinct. 
  The 
  

   notseum 
  of 
  P. 
  sandivichensis 
  was 
  marked 
  by 
  great 
  blackish 
  

   spots, 
  whereas 
  in 
  P. 
  ecaudata 
  the 
  upper 
  parts 
  were 
  of 
  a 
  uni- 
  

   form 
  brown. 
  It 
  was 
  possible 
  that 
  Latham's 
  " 
  Dusky 
  Rail 
  '' 
  

   might 
  belong 
  to 
  P. 
  sandivichensis 
  and 
  not 
  to 
  P. 
  ecaudata. 
  

  

  A 
  communication 
  was 
  read 
  from 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  

   BoTHSCHiLD 
  containing 
  the 
  descri|)tion 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  

   of 
  Hemignathus 
  from 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Lanai 
  in 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  

   group. 
  He 
  proposed 
  for 
  it 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

  

  Hemignathus 
  lanaiensis, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

   H. 
  simiUs 
  H. 
  obscuro, 
  sed 
  rostro 
  valde 
  longiore 
  et 
  crassiore, 
  

  

  