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inclining to dark buff on the chest ; much darker than in 

 C. c.parva. In size it is almost identical with C. c. parva. 

 Bill light horn-colour, tip dark brown ; iris dark brown ; 

 legs and feet brown. Culmen 11 mm. ; wing 74 ; tail 45 ; 

 tarsus 15. 



Adult female. Darker than the female of C. c. parva. 

 Bill pale horn-colour, tip dark brown ; iris dark brown ; 

 legs and feet light browm Culmen 11 mm.; wing 71; 

 tail 45 ; tarsus 14. 



Type in the British Museum : $ . Ireland Maud, Ber- 

 muda, 23. xii. 12. Collected and presented by J. N« Kennedy, 

 R.N. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant remarked that the Goldfinch had been 

 introduced into the Bermuda Islands at gome unknown date. 

 Captain Savile Reid recorded one observed near Harrington 

 Sound in April 1875 [cf. 'Zoologist/ 1877, p. 412, & 'Auk/ 

 xviii. p. 255 (1901)]. 



The propriety of giving names to birds which had become 

 darker or lighter in plumage, when introduced by man into 

 new localities, was questioned by several Members. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild said that he had recently 

 re-examined the type-specimen of the Cassowary which he 

 named Casuarius mitratus, as well as the coloured drawings 

 and photographs now exhibited. He had come to the con- 

 clusion that if C. philipi was to be treated as a species, he 

 was wrong in describing C. mitratus as a subspecies of 

 C. unappendicidatus ; and it must be given full specific rank. 

 His error was due to the fact that when the description was 

 drawn up the bird was alive, and had not reached its full 

 growth and colour. He also exhibited coloured drawings of 

 C. keysseri and C. picticollis hecki, and drew attention to the 

 differences in young and old examples of C. keysseri. With 

 regard to C. p. hecki, the drawing of the adult type, made 

 from life by Keulemans, appeared very different from that 

 made by Mr. Gronvold from the young bird now living in 

 the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. In addition 



