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is exactly what Whitaker says about the Teniet-el-Had 
specimen, and, comparing it with our seven Spanish skins, 
I cannot separate it from the latter. It must, therefore, be 
called Bubo bubo hispanus Hart. The specimen is especially 
interesting because it comes from the slopes of the Djebel 
Edough, where 72 years ago Malherbe said that it was 
“common.” 
Lord Roruscuitp further made the following remarks on 
a recently described Albatross :— 
In Article xxxv. of the ‘Bulletin of the American 
Museum of Natural History, vol. xxxvil. pp. 861-864, 
Dec. 10, 1917, Mr. Robert Cushman Murphy describes a 
new Albatross collected by Mr. R. H. Beck on the Chilian 
coast, and which he calls Diomedea sanfordi. This bird he 
compares with exulans and epomophora (=regia). He even 
goes so far as to establish a new subgenus Rhothonia for it. 
On reading the description I was at once struck by the fact 
that the differences mentioned were exactly those separating 
chionoptera and exulans. On comparing my old and young 
chionoptera from Kerguelen Island (Robert Hall coll.), this 
was confirmed, and, moreover, we have at Tring a specimen 
of the latter from Sydney Harbour belonging to Mr. Mathews 
and there is a record for West Australia. This shows that 
the bigger Albatrosses fly far and wide, out of the breeding 
season, and so could easily reach the coasts of S. America. 
Mr. Mathews has in his book made chipnoptera a sub- 
species of exulans, but this to my mind is doubtful, and 
Mr. Mathews is inclined also now to doubt this. To sum 
up, D. sanfordi Murph.= D. chionoptera Salv. 
Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker described the following new 
subspecies :— 
Prinia inornata herberti, subsp. nov. 
Nearest to Prinia i. burmanica, but easily distinguished 
by its much darker upper parts, its paler and less rufescent 
