1888.] mr. saunders on auerouedula carolinensis. 469 



Gallicrex cinerea. 



Niche en nombre me'diocre dans les rizicres, quitte le pays pour 

 I'hiver. Un male adulte tue' a Oricoul a 20 kilometres de Seoul, a 

 eu I'iris blanc avec un leger reflet jaune roussatre ; bee jaune verdatre 

 a base carnee : scutelle frontale rouge sale, a sommet du tubercule 

 came tirant au bleuatre ; pieds gris verdatre obscur. Longueur 

 totale 413, vol 71(), aile 210, queue 85, bee 39, tarse 73, doigt median 

 73, ongle 14 millim. 



Sternula sinensis. 



Commune au printemps, rare en ete, manque en hiver. 



Cairina rtjtila. 



Peu nombreuse en hiver, au printemps et en automne, manque en 

 ete ; tres nombreuse au printemps dans les rizicres de la Coree 

 septentrionale. 



Clangula glaucion. 



Assez commune au printemps et en hiver, sur la mer, moins sur 

 les rivieres. 



OlDEMIA AMERICANA. 



Ne trouvee qu'en hiver sur la mer aux environs de Ginzan'. 



December 4, 1888. 



Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Howard Saunders, F.Z.S., exhibited an adult male specimen 

 of the American Green-winged Teal, Querquedula carolinensis, the 

 property of Mr. H. NichoUs, of Kingsbridge, South Devon, shot out 

 of a flock (perhaps of Commou Teal) at the mouth of the Dart, on 

 December 23rd or 24th, 1879. The white crescentic baud in front of 

 each wing (the principal specific characteristic) was fully defined, A 

 letter from Dr. Edmund Elliot, giving full details of the occurrence, was 

 read. This, he observed, was the only British-killed example which 

 had been submitted to public examination ; but a male of this species 

 had been recorded as having been shot near Scarborough in November 

 1851 (Zoologist, p. 3472), and it had been stated that another was 

 killed in Hampshu-e nearly fifty years ago. It was worthy of notice 

 that up to the present time this species was not known to have been 

 introduced on any ornamental waters in Great Britain or on the 

 Continent. 



^ Dans la premiere liste imprimee dans les 'Proceedings' du 1887 au lieu de 

 Gouran 11 faut lire partout Ginzan sur les pages 611 et 596, 



