one louud lu the Indian FenmsuJa and the otJicr in t)ie 

 Burnjese Provinces. Tlje huter had been reeognizcd by 

 Dr. Sharpe as the true Grua auityone of Linnieus^ but; in 

 Dr. Blanford^s opinion, this name was founded on Edwards's 

 description of the Greater Indian Ci'ane (Nat. Hist. Birds, i. 

 p. 45, pi. 45), which was said to have " the neck very long, 

 covered in tlie upper parts with white feathers, which gradu- 

 ally become ash-coloured towards its bottom." This. 

 Dr. Biauford coiitended, could only apply to tbe Indumljird, 

 and he tlierefore proposed the name of Gran {Auiiyo)tt) slLarpU 

 for the dark-coloured Burmese form^ whicli had no white' on 

 the neck. The characters of the two species were clearly 

 given by Dr. Sharpe in the twenty-third volume of tlie 

 ' Catalogue of Birds/ pp. 263, 264. 



, Mr. H. J. Pearson continued his narrative of his recent 

 expedition to Kolguev and Novaya Zemlya, and exhibited 

 specimens of the dow-ny nestlings of Bewick's Swan^ Bean 

 Goose, Common Eider, Grey Plover, Turnstone, Dunlin, and 

 Temmiuck's Stint. He also brought for exhibition a beau- 

 tiful series of the eggs of Briinnich's Guillemot. 



An interesting discussion ensued on ]\Ir. Pearson's papei", 

 in which Admiral iMarkliam', Mr. Howard Saunders, Mr. 

 Sclater^ and others took part. 



The next Meeting of the Club will take place on Wednes- 

 day, the 18th of December^ at the Restaurant Frascati, 

 32 Oxford Street, at 7 p.m. 



(Signed) 



P. L. ScLATEK, R, BownLEK Sharpe, Howard Saunders, 

 CJtairuian. Editor. Sec. is Treas. 



