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west Frontier of India. He stated tliat the first example of 

 this species obtained within Indian limits had been procured 

 ■ by Lieut. C. H. D. Whitehead in December 1906, 40 miles 

 further north on the Samana, at an elevation of 5000 ft. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild. M.P., exhibited two 

 skins of a very rare Parrot, Urochroma dilectissima, ScL, 

 hitherto only known from the type-specimens in the British 

 Museum. The latter had been obtained by the late 

 Professor Goeriag in the Andes of Merida. The specimens 

 now exhibited were found among a lot of trade-skins from 

 Bogota, U.S. Colombia. 



Mr. H. J. Pearson recorded for the first time the 

 occurrence of the Spitsbergen Ptarmigan {Lagopus hyper- 

 boreus) on Alger Island, Franz Josef Land. A pair of birds 

 had been shot in June 1904 by the members of Mr. R. W. 

 Porter^s party, belonging to the Ziegler Polar Expedition, 

 and had been sent to the American Museum of Natural 

 History, where they were identified by Mr. W. D. Miller. 

 He further stated that no species of Lagopus had ever been 

 met with on Novaya Zemlya, and that Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 should not have included these islands in the chart in the 

 British Museum (Natural History), which shows the 

 distribution of the Grouse^. 



* [Mr. H. J. Pearson is of opinion that no vspftcies of Lagopus is to 

 be found on the islands of Novaya Zemlya, because be has never 

 been able to find an authentic instauce of one having been found there 

 (c/. Ibis, 1898, p. 205). 



Von Heugiin (cf. Ibis, 1872, p. 62) states his reasons for believing that 

 a species of Lagopus does occur there, and on his authority Novaya 

 Zemlya has been coloured red on the chart in the British Museum 

 (Natural History), which shows the distribution of the Tetraonidce. 



The fact that the Spitsbergen Ptarmigan has now been proved to 

 occur on Franz Josef Land, though it was not met with by either 

 Mr. F. G. Jackson or the members of his party during a residence there of 

 about two years, seems to me an additional reason for believing that 

 some species of Lagopus may occur on Novaya Zemlya and will 

 ultimately be procured. — Ed.] 



