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the birds on October 28 last. Meanwhile, however, you 
may feel entirely at liberty to mention my observations before 
the B.O.C. I have recently gone over the notes I made at 
the time, and have examined some specimens as well, making 
sure that the identification was quite satisfactory. As nearly 
as I can estimate at present, the position was probably a 
couple of hundred miles west of the Azores. Hight or ten 
birds were in sight at first, and I kept seeing a few off and 
on for about two hours and a half thereafter.” 
At a later date (September 30, 1919) Mr. Harper again 
wrote to me :— 
“Since writing you last week, I have learned from our 
Navy Department that the noon position of my ship on 
October 28, 1918, when I first saw the Black-capped Petrels, 
was 41° 43’ N., longitude 38° 05’ W. It is thus very inter- 
esting to find that both the October and the July observations 
were in practically the same part of the ocean.” 
Considering that Mr. Harper is a trained ornithologist, 
and very close observer, I consider that this record is worthy 
of perpetuation. 
Mr. HE. ©. Stuart Baker, on behalf of Messrs. H. C. 
Robinson and C. Boden Kloss, exhibited the types and read 
the descriptions of the following new subspecies of Malay 
birds :— 
~Garrulax pectoralis meridionalis, subsp. nov. 
Garrulax pectoralis Hume (partim), Stray Feathers, viii. 
(1876), p. 169; Oates (partim), Birds of Burma (1883), 
p- 36; Sharpe (partim), Cat. Birds, B.M. vii. (1883), p. 44; 
Blanford (partim), Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. (1889), p. 80. 
Differs from the typical Himalayan and other north- 
western birds in having all the tail-feathers, except the 
central pair, tipped with buff, not white ; the under surface, 
including chin and throat, ochraceous-buff slightly paler on 
the abdomen ; the nuchal collar paler. Har-coverts white, 
striped with black ; the frontal feathers and lores ochraceous- 
buff, the latter slightly tipped with black. 
