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eye were never completely lost. As would be seen, both 

 the males exhibited had the head and neck smoky-black ; 

 one was entirely without any trace of white feathers in 

 front of the eye, but in the other a few small white feathers 

 Mere moulting in at the base of the bill. 



He likewise exhibited two immature males of the Scaup 

 Duck (JYyroca marila), which had also been sent from North 

 Iceland as adult birds in eclipse-plumage. The immature 

 bird might, however, be recognized from the adult in eclipse 

 by the much greater amount of white on the face. The age 

 of the specimens exhibited was clearly proved by the presence 

 of downy plumes still clinging to the tips of some of the 

 feathers of the rump. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild made the following 

 remarks on the genus Bradyornis : — 



il After Mr. Ogilvie-Grant had revised the genus Brady- 

 ornis and prepared his key to the species (c/. ' Ibis/ 1913, 

 pp. 631-637), I asked our attendant to arrange the large 

 material in the Tring Museum according to this new classifi- 

 cation, and, in looking over our specimens, found one or two 

 points which required elucidation. Mr, Grant very kindly 

 examined the doubtful specimens with me, and the two 

 following alterations will have to be made : — 



" (1) Mr. Grant, following Prof. Neumann, has entered 

 Bradyornis muscicapina Hartl. as a synonym of Bradyornis 

 murinus. Prof. Neumann thought that the type specimen 

 had been lost; but it is safely preserved in the Tring 

 Museum, and a re-examination of the bird shows it to be 

 a specimen of the Common Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa 

 striata Pall. 



" (2) When Sharpe described Bradyornis subalaris from 

 Mombasa he was unaware that it was indistinguishable from 

 examples from Kordofan — a fact which has recently been 

 pointed out by Mr. Grant. Baron von Miiller undoubtedly 

 described and measured as the type of his Muscicapa pallida 

 from 'Abyssinia and Kordofan' the specimen from Kordofan, 

 and not the Abyssinian example. This being the case, the 



