800 Dii. A. H. mkvi:r on tiik ixLKfTi. [Nov. 20, 



pale yellow acuminate feathers on the collnr, which are rarely absent 

 in specimens from the Falklands. 



16. StERCORARIUS CHILENSIS, Bp. 



Lestris anfarcficns, var.c, chilensis, Bp. Consp.Av.ii. p. 207(1S57)- 



Stercorarius chilensis, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 323. 



[No. 718, J. Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 18th, 

 1876. Eyes brown ; stomach had fish &c.] 



A freshly moulted but somewhat immature specimen. Hitherto 

 no examples of this well-marked form have been obtained beyond the 

 eastern exit of the Straits of Magellan, its range being apparently to 

 the westward and northward along the coast as far as the lat. 23° S. 

 Since writing my notice of the Slercorariince {loc. cit.), 1 have had 

 an opportunity of verifying the correctness of mj' opinions by the 

 examination of Bonaparte's type in the Berlin Aluseum. 



] 7. Stercorarius pomatorhinus (Temm.). 

 Lestris poinarinus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 514 (1815). 

 Stercorarius pomatorhinus, Newton, Ibis, 1865, p. 509; Saunders, 

 P. Z. S. 1876, p. 324. 



[1 specimen. Off Inosima, Japan, May 1875.] 



A very fine adult bird, the golden tips to the feathers on the sides 

 of the neck being very rich, and the dusky pectoral band being faint 

 in the centre. This is quite a new locality for this species ; for 

 although its occurrence as a straggler once on the coast of Tenas- 

 serim, and once at Cape York, North Australia, would lead to the 

 expectation that it would find its way downwards through the 

 North Pacific, yet the only other locality on that side hitherto 

 recorded is that of the Prybilov Islands, a long way to the N.W. 

 The date, and the fact of this specimen being an adult, make this 

 link in the chain of our knowledge of its geographical distribution 

 particularly interesting. 



10. Some additional Proof, if needed^ of tte Fact that the 

 Red Eclecti are the Females of the Green ones. By Dr. 

 A. B. Meyer, Director of the Royal Zoological Museum, 

 Dresden. Communicated by the Secretary. 

 [Rweired 26th October, 1877.] 

 (Plate LXXIX.) 



My assertion that the red Eclecti are the females of the green ones ' 

 did not at first meet with approval from many sides ; but I suppose 

 that now it begins to be looked upon as correct. Nevertheless it may 

 not be superfluous to recur to the question, the more so as the facts 

 which I have to record are much to the point. 



Some time ago the Dresden Museum received a specimen of 



' Verb. k. k.zool.-bot. Gesellsch. ^yien, 1874, and Mittheilungen a. d. k. zool. 

 Mus. Dresden, Heft i. 187o. 



