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The tail-feathers are brown, narrowly banded with huffish. 

 In other respects similar to A. malouiniis. 



Hah. Patagonia. 



Type in Brit. Mus. (J, Valle del Lago Blanco^ Cheeput, 

 Pabigonia, 29. vi. 1900. Coll. by J. Koslowsky. 



Measure tnents. Wing 175 mm. ; tarsns 22 mm. 



I at first thought th;it the very striking difference between 

 this bird and specimens of A. malouiniis in the B.M. Coll. 

 might be due to sex or season, but there are male ex- 

 amples in the National Collection, taken on the same date 

 and in the same locality, which are in all respects similar to 

 specimens of A. malouiniis from the Falklands. Nor can 

 the difference be ascribed to age, unless all the specimens of 

 Aft. malouinus in the B.M. Coll. are young birds. 



Dr. Lowe also exhibited four examples of the Whim- 

 brel from the East Coast of Africa (Zanzibar, Mombasa, 

 Portuguese East Africa) in which the axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, and under tail-coverts were pure white. The back 

 and rump were also pure white, with no hidden dark spots 

 as in Numenius plueopus plueopus., while the fore neck and 

 upper pectoral region were marked with thin streaks of 

 brown, not so numerous nor extending so far down on the 

 breast and flanks as in typical AT. plueopus. Taken in con- 

 junction with the fact that the Whimbrel has been recorded 

 by Col. R. Meinertzhagen as breeding on Mauritius {cf. 

 'Ibis,' 1912, p. 102), the restricted distribution of these four 

 peculiar examples struck Dr. Lowe as being more than a 

 mere coincidence, and he proposed to call attention to the 

 variation by assigning to them the name of 



Numenius phaeopus alboaxillaris, subsp. nov. 



Ilah. East Coast of Africa, 



Type in Brit. Mus. ? , Inhambane, Portuguese East 

 Africa, 25.ix.06. No. 1903.10.14.292. 



Dr. Lowe also called attention to the fact that the name 

 Belonopterus rayennensis chilensis, given by Molina to the 

 Chilean Lapwing, cannot stand, as in the original description 



