Vi 



yellow. " Iris reddish brown ; Lill dusky, raaiKlible yellowish 

 flesh; feet brownish yellow -''■ {A. L.B.). 



Vring 51-5i mra._, tail 4.2-45, bill G-b-7, tarsus lG-16-5. 



Nearest to C. custuneiceps. but easily distiuguished by its 

 darker rufous crown and grey back, besides other differences. 

 Named in honour of ]Mr. Butler. 



Hub. Gunoug Ijau, 4-000 feet. 



Mr. Hartlbt also announced that Mr. A. H. Everett, 

 IM.B.O.C... had returned to England, and was at 88 Great 

 Portland Street, W ., suti'ering f]'om Ijis long and arduous 

 labours in tropical climates. It was unanimously resolved 

 that an expression of the sympathy of the Club should be 

 conveyed to !Mr. Everett, whose illness would, it was Ijoped, 

 soon pass away; meanwhile he was quite able and anxious to 

 receive visits from his brother-ornithologists. 



The Hon. "Walter Rothschild sent the following com- 

 munication : — 



The expedition sent out to the Galapagos Islands by 

 Frank Blake Webster, at my suggestion, has been ver}'- 

 successful^ and the collection is the largest and finest yet 

 made in that group. The collectors stayed one day at 

 Clarion Island and procured 85 birds, among which was a 

 fine series of the new Sula described hereafter. Of the 105 

 species enumerated by Ridgway as occurring in the Gala- 

 pagos Islands, good series of nearly all were obtained. 

 Several authors have mentioned the breeding-place of an 

 Albatross on Hood Island, but no specimens were ever 

 collected; while two species of Albatross were mentioned 

 by former visitors to the islands, and Padgway suggested that 

 they might be Diomedta exalans and D. ulyripes. The present 

 expedition, however, found only one species of Albatross on 

 Hood Island, and that proved to be Diomedea irrorata 

 Salvin, of which hitherto only the type in the British 

 Museum was known. The second supposed dark species 

 will probably be the young of the above. 



