101 [Vol. xxi. 



Habs 10 miles E. of Alligator Eiver^ Arnliem Land. 

 Type in the Tring Museum, S, 4.vii.03: J. T. Tunney 

 coll. 



The Eev. Allan Ellison exhibited the unfinished and 

 deserted nest of a Hedge- Sparrow {Accentor modularis), 

 containing an e^^ of the Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), found 

 near Watton, Herts, on May 16th. It was suggested that 

 possibly the nest had been deserted by its owner in conse- 

 quence of the intrusion of the Cuckoo's egg before the nest 

 was complete. 



Mr. C. Oldham exhibited an example of SchlegeFs Petrel 

 {(Estrelata neglecta) which had been picked up dead near 

 Tarporley, Cheshire, on April 1st, 1908. It was seen in the 

 flesh by Mr. Robert Newstead, and immediately afterwards 

 by Mr. T. A. Coward, who recognized it as (E. neglecta, an 

 identification which was subsequently confirmed at the 

 British Museum by Mr. F. D. Godman and Dr. Bowdier 

 Sharpe. 



The true home of this species was the Southern Pacific, 

 especially the vicinity of the Kermadec Islands, about 1500 

 miles to the east of Australia. 



This was the first instance of the occurrence of this species 

 in Europe or in any part of the Northern Hemisphere. The 

 specimen had already been exhibited at a meeting of the 

 Zoological Society of London held on May the 12th [c/*. 

 Abstr. of Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. no. 58, p. 23 (1908)]. 



Mr. C. H. T. Whitehead sent a letter to the Editor of 

 the ' Bulletin,' in which he pointed out that the Linnet 

 collected by himself in North-west India, and recorded in 

 the ' Bulletin ' [xix. p. 7 (1906)] as Linota cannabina, had 

 been incorrectly identified, and that he had subsequently 

 found it to be an example of L. fringillirostris. 



