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Spatula clypeata. — Very pcale buff, with some liver-coloured 

 marks on the shoulders, and mottled with white. 



Lonivia troile. — 1, with white on neck and head. 



Uria grylle. — 1, sandy flight-feathers. 



Larus canus. — 1, wanting the black on flight-feathers, the 

 grey on the back paler than usual, tail band ash-colour. 



Stercorarius pomatorhimis. — 1, nearly black. 



The varieties might be roughly classified thus : — 



1. — Melanisms, e.g., Kedwing, Bullfinch, &c. 



2. — Birds in typical plumage, except that they lack intensity 

 of colour, e.g., Song Thrush, Landrail, &c. 



3. Albinisms : i., the feathers being white, e. g., Shrike and 

 Eedpole; ii., the feathers being tinged with colour, e.g., nestling 

 Bullfinch and Missel Thrush. 



4. — White varieties, e. g., Nightingale, Sparrow, Willow Wren. 



5. — Birds abnormally coloured, e. g.. Magpie and Yellow 

 Bunting. 



6. — Pied varieties, e. g.. Blackbird, Wren, &c. 



AN AUTUMN VISIT TO SPITZBERGEN. 



SUPPLEMENTAKT REMARKS. 



By Alfred Heneagk Cocks, M.A., F.Z.S. 



The notes on the above subject in ' The Zoologist ' for 1883 

 concluded with the list of the species of birds actually obtained 

 during this voyage. In addition to these the following species 

 were noted (and among these latter Briinnich's Guillemot should 

 have been included, instead of in the preceding list, as we did 

 not actually handle a specimen). 



Falcon, Falco sp ? ; Norwegian, " Falk." — A Falcon was seen 

 by Arnesen and some of the men when we were at the Swedish 

 Meteorological Station at Cape Thordsen, on Sept. 12th, stooping 

 at one of the tame pigeons brought out by the Expedition. They 

 succeeded in saving the pigeon by shouting and waving their 

 arms. As one of the pigeons had been missing for a few days 

 previously, it is possible this was not the Falcon's first visit to 

 that spot. At Kecherche Bay, on Sept. 22nd, we had a good 

 view of a Gyrfalcon, which species I cannot say positively, but it 



