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occasion only he saw at Tristan d'Acunda a bii^d which might 

 have been Thalassidroma leucogastra ( = F. grallnria). 

 Mr.Nicull ('Ibis/ 1906, p. 675) also says that he saw exam [)les 

 of Cymodroma grallaria round Tristan d^Acunha, but it 

 appears that neither he nor Sperling actually obtained a 

 specimen. 



" I do not wish to deny the possibility that the birds seen 

 by the above writers may have been F. grallaria, especially as 

 this species has been recorded by Mr. Eagle Clarke from 

 Gough Island, which is not far distant.''' 



In the absence of Dr. F. D. Godman through illness^ 

 Dr. BowDLER Shahpe remarked that the specimen sent by 

 Count Salvador! was a very interesting one, though he 

 had not been able to find a record of it in the Catalogue of 

 Bullock's sale. The measurements of the specimen were as 

 follows : — Total length 8*0 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 6*5, 

 tail 2*9, tarsus 1*6, middle toe and claw 1*1. These measure- 

 ments slightly exceeded those of C. grallaria, wherein the 

 culmen was 05 inch, wing 6*l-6'5, the tarsus 1'4-1*5, and 

 the middle toe and claw 0*8-0*9 [cf. Godman, Monogr. 

 Petrels, i. p. Q7). 



From the entirely white belly it was evident that Count 

 Salvadori''s new species had no connection with C. melano- 

 gaster, but was more closely allied to C. grallaria, as it had 

 the breast and abdomen pure white, without any black. 



The bird from Tristan d'Acunha was very similar to the 

 specimen mentioned by Dr. Godman in his ' Monograph ' 

 (p. 66) (specimen a, Salvin, Cat. Birds B.M. xxv. p. 367)^ 

 but the latter had white on the throat, and a few white 

 fringes to the dorsal feathers, while the Turin specimen was 

 perfectly uniform above and seemed to be an older bird. 

 Dr. Godman believed that specimen a of the ' Catalogue ' 

 was the young of C. grallaria, but it seemed possible that 

 it might be the young of C. melanoleuca (Salvador!). 



Mr. Cherry Kearton exhibited a w^onderfully fine series 

 of cinematograph pictures of bird-life. The first part of 



