16 BRITISH BIRDS. 



This example agrees best with the dark-breasted 

 form of (E. neglecta (Schlegel), but this species, according 

 to Salvin,* has the tarsi and basal portions of the toes 

 yellow. However this may be, we find on comparing 

 our specimen with an example of the dark-breasted form 

 of (E. neglecta, in the collection of the Liverpool Museum, 

 and with the specimens in the Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington, that they are, we think, specifically 

 identical. The plumage agrees in almost every detail. 

 Furthermore, Salvin* states that " great variation 

 exists as to the colour of the under-surface, some birds 

 being nearly uniform greyish-brown." 



CE. arminjoniana, Gigl. and Salvad., comes very near 

 it, but this species is said to have the " under tail- 

 coverts white, "t and there are other marked differences. 



Both the species hitherto recorded for the British 

 Isles [(E. hesitata, Kuhl., and (E. brevipes (Peale)], belong 

 to that section of the genus (Estrelata_ in which the 

 exposed portion of the outer primary beneath is dark 

 not white, so that, apart from other differences, the 

 Cheshire specimen cannot be either of these. 



Regardless, therefore, of the difference in the colour of 

 the feet and legs, we have come to the conclusion that 

 our specimen is referable to (Estrelata neglecta, and that 

 this species should be added to our fauna as a wanderer 

 to the British Isles. Drs. Bowdler Sharpe and Du Cane 

 Godman, to whom we showed the specimen, are of 

 opinion that our conclusion is warranted. 



(E. neglecta is known only as a South Pacific species ; 

 it has been obtained in the neighbourhood of the 

 Kermadec Islands, but little is known about its range. 

 Apparently it has never before been recorded as 

 occurring in Europe. On March 25th the wind in 

 Cheshire veered from the south-east to the west, and 

 later to the N.N.W. On the 27th it backed to the 

 S.S.W., rising in force, and remained westerly until the 

 31st, when, as registered at Manchester, it was blowing 



* Salvin, op. cit., p. 412. f Salvin, op. cit., p. 413. 



