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ancestry. Some of the points which justified snch a con- 

 clusion he then briefly alluded to. It was interesting to 

 note that these Skua-like osteological features were reflected 

 in the Skua-iike habits of the bird. Dr. Lowe had also 

 brought for exhibition the skull of a Ruff (Machetes pugnax), 

 which he contended proved beyond doubt that this Wader- 

 form must be classed with the Eroliince (the Dunlin group) 

 rather than with the Tringince (the Redshank group). He 

 exhibited typical skulls of these two groups for purposes of 

 comparison. As he was shortly publishing some notes on 

 these various points in ' The Ibis/ he would not amplify his 

 remarks on the present occasion. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman exhibited specimens of the large 

 Shearwater inhabiting the North Atlantic islands, which 

 had hitherto been considered identical with Puffinus kuhli 

 jlavirostris (Gould) of the Cape seas, and said : — '' In ' The 

 Ibis ' for July IQl^, I published a paper on the nidification 

 and the distribution of the Tubinares in the North Atlantic 

 islands. Since this paper appeared my attention has been 

 called by Mr. Iredale to the siguificant fact that the type 

 of Procellaria Jlavirostris Gould was ol)tained by Governor 

 Grey in latitude 36° 39' S., long. 10° 3' E.— that is to say, 

 south of the Cape of Good Hope. The name has been 

 applied by Dr. Hartert, myself, and all recent ornithologists 

 to the bird, which has its habitat in the North Atlantic 

 islands, and which breeds extensively on the Canary Islands, 

 Salvages, Madeira Group, and Azores {vide ' Ibis,' 1914, 

 p. 146). 



" In the British Museum there are two birds from 

 Kerguelen-land obtained by the ' Challenger ' Expedition, 

 and referred by the late Dr. Sharpe, in the ' Transactions 

 of the Royal Society,' extra vol., 1874, p. 122, to Puffinus 

 kuhli. To these examples Gould's description of P. Jlavi- 

 rostris applies perfectly, and it must be noticed that the 

 birds were obtained near the type-locality of Procellaria 

 jlavirostris. 



