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This race is mentioned by Dr. Ilartcrt \_cf. Die Vogel Pal. 

 Faun. pt. iv. p. 509 (1907)] as Phytluscopus trochilus evers- 

 manni (Bonap.), and has not hitherto been recorded as a 

 migrant in Great Britain. Dr. liartert states that its 

 breeding-range begins in N. Russia, east of the Timan Hills, 

 and extends southwards along the Ural Mountains to the 

 eastern part of Perm and Orenburg. Eastwards it is the 

 form which breeds in the valleys of the Ob and Yenesei 

 and reaches the mouth of the Lena and Kolyma. It 

 passes through Egypt on migration and appears to winter 

 in South Africa. As I have found examples of this race 

 breeding in North Finmark and have seen others fiom 

 North Norway, it would seem that the breeding-range must 

 extend further west, while as a migrant it is apparently 

 a regular bird of passage to our shores, as I have seen ex- 

 amples from the south of England (Hampshire and Sussex) 

 and from the Shetland Isles *. 



Mr. BoNHOTE exhibited a female specimen of Phylloscupus 

 colly bita abietina (Nilss.), a form of the ChiilchafF which, 

 according to Dr. Hartert, breeds in Northern and Eastern 

 Europe, and has not hitherto been recorded from England. 

 The bird was obtained at St. Catherine's Lighthouse, in the 

 Isle of Wight, on the I5th April, 1907. It is a slightly larger 

 and paler form, the wing in the present individual measuring 

 58 mm. as against 55 mm. in that of a specimen of the 

 t;^pical race killed at the same time. 



Dr. Hartert states that it is occasionally found in West 

 Europe on migration, and that it winters in Greece, Asia 

 Minor, and N.E. and E. Africa. 



Dr. Hartert has examined the individual in question and 

 agrees as to its identification *. 



Mr. BoNHOTE also exhibited the skin of a female Sheld- 

 duck in the eclipse-jilumage In the course of liis remarks 

 he pomted out that the male Sheld-duck followed the custom 



* Cf. Remarks on the different forms of the L'hiffchaff' and Willow- 

 Wren : Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1901, pp. ti44-64.3. 



