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by having fewer white secondary-quills, six only being white, 

 of which the innermost and outermost feathers of the series 

 were partially black. In the Common Golden-Eye eight 

 of the secondary-quills were white, the first and the last of 

 the series being partially or mostly black — that was to say 

 that in Barrow's Golden-Eye one found four almost pure white 

 secondaries and in the Common Golden-Eye six. Lastly, in 

 Barrow's Golden-Eye the head and. neck were dark smoky 

 brown, usually much darker than in the Common Golden- 

 Eye, in which those parts were of a lighter aud more rufous- 

 brown. The differences in the depth of the bill, remarked 

 on above by Dr. Ticehurst, had also been pointed out by 

 Brewster and other authors, including the speaker. The 

 Goose-like bill of Barrow's Golden-Eye was an excellent 

 distinctive character, and Brewster (op. cit.) had described 

 the differences as follows : — " The decided reduction in the 

 width of the bill of islandica near its tip is, I think, the best 

 of all the distinctive characters afforded by the female of 

 this species. The bill of americana when viewed from above 

 has a very different appearance, being much wore typically 

 duck4ike in shape," 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also exhibited a male and female of 

 the South Georgian Pintail, commonly known as Nettion 

 georgicum (Gmel.). A good description and figure of the 

 bird would be found in the J. f. O. 1888, p. 118, pi. i. 



The specimens exhibited formed part of a consignment 

 sent home by the late Major Barrett-Hamilton, whose 

 sudden death was so greatly deplored by all. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also brought for comparison speci- 

 mens of Dafila spinicauda from South America and. of 

 D. eatoni from Kerguelen Island. 



It was obvious that the bird from South Georgia was 

 closely allied to these species, aud should no doubt be 

 placed between them in the genus Dafila. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S., exhibited 

 a number of birds from the Admiralty Islands, north of 



