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killed in summer, and an immature bird. No additional 

 specimens had been added to the National Collection since 

 the Catalogue of the Game-Birds had been published in 1893. 



All but one of the specimens lent by Mr. Cocks had been 

 collected by Mr. Abel Chapman in July 1881 and by him- 

 self in September 1882 (cf. ' Zoologist/ 1882, p. 407 ; 1883, 

 p. 482), and included examples of both sexes in summer- 

 and autumn-plumage. It would be noted that in this 

 species from high latitudes the summer- and autumn- 

 plumages were only partially assumed, and were more or less 

 thickly interspersed with white feathers : also that the rufous 

 colour of the summer- and autumn-plumages resembled that 

 of L. rupestris, but was of a somewhat paler tint. 



Mr. Abel Chapman in ' Wild Norway/ pp. 185-6, had 

 stated that L. hyperboreus was a Willow-Grouse and not 

 a Ptarmigan, and that its cry, as well as the size of its bill 

 and claws, clearly proved its affinities with the Willow- 

 Grouse. The cry he described as a Grouse-like bee, bee, but 

 lower and more subdued than that of the Willow-Grouse. 



It would be seen, however, on comparison that the some- 

 what slender bill of L. hyperboreus resembled that of the 

 Ptarmigan and not of the Grouse, and that in the Spits- 

 bergen bird the male had a black patch in front of the eye, 

 and was undoubtedly a larger and longer-tailed form of the 

 Rock-Ptarmigan, L. rupestris. The Grouse-like voice de- 

 scribed by Mr. Chapman no doubt indicated an affinity with 

 the other section of the genus Lagopus. A full description 

 and plate of this species would be found in Koenig's 

 ' Avifauna Spitzbergensis,' p. 154, pi. iv. (1911). 



On behalf of Mr. John N. Kennedy, R.N., Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant read the following description of a new subspecies 

 of Goldfinch from Bermuda. Mr. Kennedy proposed to 

 name it 



Carduelis carduelis bermudiana, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Similar to C. c. parva Tsch., but distinguished 

 by its darker coloration. The back and rump dark umber- 

 brown ; the breast, sides of body, and flanks umber-brown, 



