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ceous blue, the latter as well as the rump greenish when held 

 away from the light. Underside white, flanks pale buff. 



Mr. Tom Tredale exliibited specimens of the Grey 

 Phalarope and said : — Hitherto the Grey Phalarope has 

 been recorded (^. p., by Hartert and by Ridgway) as 

 showing no subspecific form. However, examination of the 

 British Museum collection shows that PalEearctic birds differ 

 appreciably from Nearctic specimens. The latter series was 

 complete, but the former was not so extensive. The Rev. 

 F. C. R. Jourdain was therefore asked to pay special 

 attention to this species in Spitzbergen. This request was 

 willingly attended to and a good series brought back, which 

 absolutely confirtned the earlier conclusions, so that the 

 Palsearctic form is here distinguished as 



Phalaropus fulicarius jourdaini, subsp. nov. 



Summer plumage. ? . Separable at sight from the typical 

 form (type-locality, Hudson Bay, North America) in the 

 paler coloration of the edgings of the feathers on the 

 back, scapulars, and tertials. The colour of these edges 

 have been variously named in the American bird as rusty- 

 yellow, golden-buff, cinnamon, pale fawn, and sandy-buff ; 

 while in the present form they are only creamy and appear 

 appreciably narrower. The colouring of the under parts is 

 very similar in the two forms. 



^ . The differences are not so marked, but just as impor- 

 tant : the margins of the feathers on the upper parts are 

 darker in both cases, but the Spitzbergen males are notably 

 paler above and the under surface also seems to be paler. 



Winter plumages have not been compared, owing to lack 

 of series. 



Ty2-)e ? . Liefde Bay, N.W. Spitzbergen, 7. 7. 21. 



The male is from the same place, collected on the same day. 

 I have groat pleasure in attaching to this distinct form the 

 name of the leader of the Oxford University Expedition to 

 Spitzbergen, 1921. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman exhibited and described a remark- 

 able new Sun-bird from Cameroon, West Africa, which he 

 proposed to name 



