85 [Vol. xxix. 



"The rounded form of the beak is to be noted, a roundness 

 whicb continues to be observable for several days after the 

 young Gannet is hatched. 



"Another point is that the connection of all the toes' in 

 one web is plainly visible in the folded foot^ which is resting 

 upon the head. Numerous filaments of down cau be de- 

 tected in rows on a close examination." 



Dr. Percy R. Lowe exhibited and described examples of 

 a new species and subspecies of American Creeper, which he 

 proposed to name 



C(EREBA PACIFICA, Sp. U. 



Adult male. Differs from C. magnirostris in being a smaller 

 bird, with shorter wings and a much shorter bill. The color- 

 ation in the two species is nearly identical. 



Exposed culmen 10 mm. (as compared with 14 mm.) ; 

 wing 56 ; tarsus 16. 



Hah. Pacific coast district of Peru. 



Type in the British Museum : J, No. 332 (84.7.31.198). 

 Pacasmayo, Peru. J. Stolzmann coll. 



Ohs. This small ally of C. magnirostris inhabits the arid 

 coast districts of Peru. There is only one specimen in the 

 National Collection, but there are two exactly similar 

 examples from Peruvian coast-localities in Mr. Walter 

 Rothschild's series of Ccereba, which he has kindly allowed 

 me to examine. 



It is a question whether this bird is not C. peruviana, 

 Cabanis ; but in describing that species Cabanis had almost 

 certainly before him an example of C. magnirostris, Tac- 

 zanowski, for he says his specimen (a somewhat imperfect 

 one collected by the traveller Warscewicz) is almost identical 

 in size and colour with C. majuscula, which is a much larger 

 bird than C. pacifica and very similar to C. magnirostris, but 

 without a wing-spot. Moreover, he gives no measurements, 

 and says that " the exact locality is missing ; probably it is 

 in Eastern Peru, and thus the bird is identical with one 

 referred to by Von Tschudi." 



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