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Mr. Walter Chamberlain* exhibited photographs of some 

 interesting birds which he hal living in confinement, one of 

 them being an Austrahan Crane, which had walked with a 

 wooden leg for the past few years. He also showed some 

 interesting examples of radiography taken by himself. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited specimens of 

 his neAv species, Astrapia splendidissima, and of the three 

 known species of Amblyornis. 



Mr. E. BiDWELL exhibited, by the kind permission of 

 Mr. Henry Stevens, an e^^ of the Great Auk {Alca impennis). 

 This e^^ was purchased on the .23rd of May, 1841, from 

 F. Schultz, of Dresden, by Hugh Reid, of Doncaster, who 

 sold it in the same year to the late Mr. James Hack Tuke, 

 of Hitchin, in whose collection it had remained up to the 

 present time. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert pointn^d out the differences between 

 the Masked Grosbeak of Japai [Eophona personata) and the 

 form found in Amur-land, an 1 exhibited specimens of both 

 races. He proposed to call tlie Siberian form 



EOPHOXA personata MAGNIIIOSTRIS, Subsp. n. 



Similis E. personata, ex insulfis Japonicis, sed rostro multo 

 majore (maris culm. ,2i,i mm. nee 2.2), scapularibus 

 uropygioque grisescentioiubus distinguer)da. 



Dr. BowDLER Sharpe mcj'de some remarks on recent 

 papers by Dr. J. A. Allen and Mr. Frank Isl. Chapman on 

 the changes of colour in the pjlumage of birds without moult. 

 Dr. Allen especially di3agre(j'd with the conclusions put 

 forward by the late Edward Blyth and other English 

 and German naturalists. As- regarded the points in which 

 Dr. Allen differed from the <i;onclusions of Dr. Sharpe, the 

 latter reaffirmed his conviction on the subject, and could 



not endorse Dr. Allen's views j 



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A discussion followed, in which the Hon. Walter Roth- 

 schild, Mr. Howard Saunders, !Mr. John Young, Mr. 



