Dr. BowDLER Sharpe stated that Professor Smit, the 

 Director of the Stockholm Museum;, had kindly for- 

 warded to England, for his iaspection, the type specimen 

 of Plangus nceogceus of Sundev;ill ((Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 

 Stockholm, 1874, p. 28). Since the species had been 

 described and made the type of a distinct genus, no one 

 had attempted to determine ics identity, and it was inter- 

 esting to find that Plangus ncecgcsus was in reality the young 

 of Harpy halia'etus coroyiatus. 



Dr. Sharpe also exhibited a :5pecimen of the Pied Wagtail 

 {MotaciUa lugubris), shot ueai Wandsworth on the 18th of 

 October by Mr. Henry Grant. The changes through which 

 the bird was passing were clearly, according to Dr, Sharpe, 

 those of pattern in the feather rather than those of moult. 



Mr. ScLATER exhibited a chiok of the Black-winged Pea- 

 fowl {Pavo nigripennis) which had been bred in Mr. Blaauw's 

 garden in Holland, and remarked that he still strongly main- 

 tained the validity of this spec.es, which in the 22nd volume 

 of the ' Catalogue of Birds ' had been classed only as a 

 " well-marked variety,^" and .vas confident that its native 

 habitat would be ultimately ciscovered. Not only was the 

 male of this species different :Tom that of P. cristatus, but 

 the females were quite different, and so was the young, as 

 shown by the specimen now exhibited. 



Mr. Sclater read the following notes from Mr. Blaauw on 

 this subject : — 



" In answer to your questio is about the breeding of Pavo 

 nigripennis, I can state that I liave bred these birds for the 

 last six years, having had bet^.-een 10 and 20 young birds 

 every year. These birds hav3 never shown any signs of 

 variation. 



" The chicks when they leav,; the q^^ are always of a silky 

 yellowish-white colour all ov r. The flight-feathers^ when 

 they begin to appear, are alwa/s yellowish white at the end 

 and brownish at the base^ especially so on the inner web. 

 The tail-feathers also are dark at the base, with whitish tips. 



