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peculiarity in a number of birds that were said to have 

 been captured at Wyndham, in N.W. Australia^ and, being 

 unaware that this form had already been described by 

 Heinroth, named it P. aurantiirostris. A number of the 

 red-billed, birds arrived in England, and I secured several 

 myself, and have kept living examples both of the typical 

 yellow-billed. P. acuticauda and the red-billed P. hecki, skins 

 of which I now exhibit. 



" I think there can be no doubt whatever that P. hecki is 

 a perfectly good subspecies, though its exact habitat has 

 not yet been satisfactorily determined.^'' 



Mr. G. M. Mathews remarked, that the type locality of 

 Poephila aurantiirostris, North, was given as Wyndham, but 

 that all the birds which he had procured from that locality, 

 as well as from Derby and Napier Broome Bay (all in the 

 north-west), had the colour of the bill yellow in life, not 

 orange-scarlet. He asked if it were possible to find out the 

 locality of the birds with orange-scarlet bills. 



Mr. A. F. Griffith exhibited a specimen of the Sooty 

 Tern [Sterna fuliginosa) which had been captured to the east 

 of Brighton on the 24th of April, 1911. It was observed 

 under the cliff at Black Bock in an exhausted condition, 

 and was captured by a man, who brought it to Messrs. Pratt, 

 the taxidermists of Brighton. In the absence of Mr. Griffith 

 it had been shown in the flesh to Dr. Langton. 



The bird \vas believed to be a female, but Mr. Pycraft, who 

 had examined the body, was unable to determine the sex 

 with certainty. 



Mr. WiTHERBY exhibited specimens of the Continental 

 Jay (Garrulus glandarius glandarius) from Norway and from 

 Kent, the British Jay {Garrulus g. rofitergum) , the Irish Jay 

 {Garrulus g. hihernicus), the Continental Great Tit [Parus 

 major major) from Norway and from Norfolk, the British 

 Great Tit [Parus m. newtoni), the Northern Greater Spotted 



