PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 2, 1872. 

 John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The following extract was read from a letter addressed to the 

 Viscount Walden, President of the Society, by Mr. T. G. F. Riedel, 

 Assistant Resident, Gorontalo, Celebes, with reference to the true 

 locality of Tanysiptera riedeli : — - 



" Having beeu informed of your intention of publishing a com- 

 plete description of the bii ds of Celebes, and seeing that Mr. G. R. 

 Gray, in his ' Hand-list of Birds,' has placed Tanysiptera riedeli as 

 an inhabitant of this island, I think it right to mention to you that 

 this bird, described by M. Jules Verreaux in the ' Nouvelles Archives 

 du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle' for 1866, is really from Kordo, 

 an island in the Bay of Geelvink, and not from Celebes." 



Prof. Newton, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks on a specimen 

 of Ross's Gull (Lams j-ossi) in winter plumage, from the collection of 

 the late Sir William Milner, which was stated to have been killed in 

 Yorkshire in 1847. 



Mr. Gould, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of 

 the same bird in adult summer plumage, from the Derby collection 

 at Liverpool. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1872, No. I. 



