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Mr. Wirnersy exhibited some Little Owls and made the 
following remarks :— 
In the last number of ‘ British Birds’ (vol. xiii. p. 283) 
I described as a new subspecies the Little Owl from Holland, 
and the introduced British bird as distinct from the typical 
middle Huropean bird, under the name of Athene noctua mira. 
This race, as you will see by the specimens I am exhibiting, 
is. of a very much darker brown on the upper-parts, with 
similarly darker streaks on the under-parts than the typical 
Little Owl described from Carniola. 
How far southward and eastward this new form extends 
there is not sufficient material from the north-western 
extremity of the bird’s range to state precisely, but I have 
here a specimen which I collected in Flanders which 
evidently belongs to this race, while one which I have seen 
in the Tring Museum, from near Hamburg, is also of this 
race, and Little Owls from Belgium and from Rheinland 
probably also belong to this darker form. On the other 
hand, specimens from middle Germany and further south-east, 
as well at two from Paris and one from Lyons, belong to 
the paler typical form Athene noctua noctua. 
Mr. WirHersy also exhibited examples from a very 
interesting series of skins of the following species from 
South Spain, which he had received from Surgeon-Captain 
J. H. Stenhouse, R.N., who was stationed at Gibraltar and 
who had very kindly sent him an excellent series of a number 
of birds for comparison and examination :— 
Carduelis carduelis weigoldi Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. 
1913, p. 141.—Four skins from Algeciras certainly referable 
to this subspecies which is very close to C. c. parva. This 
is the form found in Portugal. Goldfinches from as near 
Algeciras as Malaga, as well as from Valencia, Balearic 
Isles, and Saragossa are, however, like C. ¢. africana, the 
North African form. 
Certhia brachydactyla ultramontana.—I have examined a 
series of five from Algeciras which, like those from Portugal, 
are of this form and not mauretanica. 
