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Total length 215 mm., culmen 21, wing 100, tail 94, 

 tarsus 29. 



hoc. Gualea, West Ecuador, July 1914 — collected by 

 W. Goodfellow. 



Mr. Gregory M. Mathews exhibited and described a new 

 subspecies o£ Petrel : — 



Cookilaria cookii byroni, subsp. n. 



Differs from C. c. leucoptera Gould in being darker, 

 almost brown, above — not blue-grey. 



Type. Byron Bay, Northern New South Wales, in the 

 Austral. Avian Museum, Fair Oak, Hants. 



(To be added on p. 38 of 'A List of the Birds of 

 Australia,' 1913.) 



Referring to the eggs of the Sanderling in the British 

 Museum, the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain made the following 

 remarks : — 



" In the last number of the ' Bulletin ' (p. 39) Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant states that only one of the four eggs of the Sanderling 

 in the British Museum is authentic, viz. that taken by 

 Colonel Feilden, In dismissing the three remaining eggs 

 as practically valueless, Mr. Grant states that one from the 

 Crowley Bequest was said to be taken at ' Lancaster Sound, 

 Wollaston Land, by Singleton Stewart of Enterprise.' He 

 remarks that Lancaster Sound is not near Wollaston Laud, 

 and that ' Enterprise ' might refer to the ship of that name 

 or a town in Canada. 



" The e^g in question agrees closely in type with that 

 taken by Col. Feilden and with the descriptions of 

 authentic eggs. Mr. Grant has quoted correctly from 

 the slip which was copied out when the egg was admitted 

 to the Museum Collection, but has apparently omitted to 

 notice that the inscription on the egg contained no reference 

 to Lancaster Sound, and that the word which appeared on 

 the label as ' Stewart ' was really ' Steward.' Singleton was, 

 as a matter of fact, gunroom-steward on H.M.S. 'Enter- 

 prise ' in the voyage made by Captain R. CoUinson (after- 



