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  Letters, 
  Extracts, 
  Notices, 
  &^c. 
  

  

  After 
  a 
  vote 
  of 
  thanks 
  to 
  the 
  Chairman, 
  the 
  Meeting 
  

   adjourned. 
  

  

  The 
  Annual 
  Dinner, 
  subsequently 
  held 
  at 
  Limmer's 
  Hotel, 
  

   was 
  attended 
  by 
  32 
  Members 
  and 
  guests. 
  

  

  Parus 
  colletti, 
  Stejneger. 
  — 
  In 
  his 
  'Mindre 
  Meddelelser 
  

   vedrorende 
  Norges 
  Fuglefauna 
  i 
  Aarene 
  1881-1892' 
  (now 
  

   being 
  printed), 
  of 
  which 
  a 
  set 
  of 
  the 
  sheets 
  has 
  been 
  

   forwarded 
  to 
  us. 
  Prof. 
  Collett 
  makes 
  (pp. 
  34, 
  35) 
  the 
  following 
  

   remarks 
  (which 
  have 
  been 
  kindly 
  translated 
  for 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  

   Heneage 
  Cocks) 
  on 
  " 
  Parus 
  colletti," 
  a 
  " 
  species 
  " 
  instituted 
  

   by 
  Dr. 
  Stejneger 
  in 
  1888, 
  as 
  being 
  the 
  representative 
  of 
  

   Parus 
  borealis 
  in 
  Western 
  Scandinavia 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  '^n 
  the 
  Proc. 
  U.S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus. 
  1888, 
  p. 
  71, 
  Dr. 
  Stejneger 
  

   has 
  sought 
  to 
  maintain 
  that 
  Parus 
  borealis 
  makes 
  its 
  ap- 
  

   pearance 
  in 
  Scandinavia 
  in 
  two 
  forms 
  — 
  a 
  western 
  form, 
  which 
  

   is 
  stated 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  to 
  inhabit 
  Norway, 
  and 
  the 
  typical 
  

   form, 
  which 
  is 
  more 
  eastern 
  and 
  inhabits 
  generally 
  Sweden. 
  

  

  "The 
  western 
  form, 
  of 
  which 
  Dr. 
  Stejneger 
  had 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  

   examples 
  before 
  him, 
  shot 
  near 
  Bergen 
  in 
  June 
  and 
  August 
  

   1887, 
  differs, 
  he 
  says, 
  from 
  the 
  eastern, 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  six 
  

   examples, 
  shot 
  in 
  the 
  winter 
  months 
  in 
  Sweden, 
  chiefly 
  in 
  the 
  

   colour 
  of 
  the 
  hood 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  secondaries, 
  a 
  dif- 
  

   ference 
  which 
  he 
  considers 
  as 
  constant, 
  and 
  so 
  important 
  that 
  

   he 
  sets 
  up 
  the 
  western 
  form 
  as 
  a 
  peculiar 
  species 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  P. 
  colletti, 
  by 
  the 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  typical 
  (eastern) 
  P. 
  borealis. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  diagnosis 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  species 
  is 
  given 
  as 
  follows 
  

  

  (p. 
  74) 
  :- 
  

  

  Parus 
  colletti. 
  Parus 
  borealis. 
  

  

  Top 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  nape 
  pure 
  black, 
  without 
  gloss. 
  brownish 
  black*. 
  

  

  Back 
  smoke-grey. 
  pale 
  bufFy 
  grey. 
  

  

  Outer 
  margins 
  of 
  secondaries 
  like 
  the 
  back, 
  scarcely 
  lighter, 
  whitish. 
  

  

  Under 
  tail-coverts 
  smoke-grey, 
  like 
  the 
  back. 
  whitish. 
  

  

  * 
  [In 
  the 
  original 
  diagnosis 
  the 
  colour 
  of 
  the 
  hood 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  forms 
  is 
  

   exchanged, 
  which 
  is 
  obviously 
  a 
  misprint. 
  Thus 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  (at 
  the 
  foot 
  

   of 
  p. 
  74) 
  stated 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  In 
  the 
  Norwegian 
  birds 
  (P. 
  colletti) 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  deep 
  black 
  

   against 
  brownish 
  black 
  in 
  those 
  from 
  Sweden." 
  

  

  Professor 
  Collett 
  has 
  himself 
  let 
  slip 
  an 
  obvious 
  misprint 
  in 
  copying 
  the 
  

   English 
  diagnosis, 
  "hand" 
  being 
  printed 
  instead 
  of 
  "head." 
  — 
  A. 
  H. 
  C] 
  

  

  