456 G. E. Verrill — Some Birds and Eggs collected at 



locality. The shape of the dark color on the throat of his " chryso- 

 coma " would seem to point to its being the chrysolophus of Brandt 

 and this article ; also his remark that the " lateral feathers of the 



oral regions extend forwards beyond the eyes and join on 



the front to form a central tuft" seems to confirm this, if, by 

 " lateral feathers," he means the yellow ones, but if his remark sim- 

 ply applies to the feathers without regard to color, it would fit 

 chrysocome of this paper as well or even better, for in this latter 

 there is more of a " tuft " on the forehead, but it is black. 



Mr. Gould's diadematus differs more than any of the others from our 

 birds. In our specimens the throat and chin are not " sooty black " 

 but grisly gray, growing considerably lighter as it approaches the 

 white of the neck, and the bright chrome yellow of the crest does not 

 commence at the nostrils but back about 0*50 from the base of the 

 culmen and can hardly be said to form a " stripe which passes over 

 the eye," but rather a patch on the forehead extending back over 

 the eye, so that possibly Mr. Gould's bird may represent a variety or 

 sub-species from the Falklands, though I am inclined to think, with 

 Messrs. Slater and Salvin (Voy. Chal., Zool., vol. ii, p. 127), that it 

 was only an individual variation, as these birds apparently vary 

 much among themselves. 



Our three specimens differ mainly from the figure of Slater and 

 Salvin (Voy. Chal., ZooL, vol. ii, pi. 29, fig. l) in showing yellowish 

 white very plainly on the upper tail coverts, in having a patch of 

 naked skin (said to be pink in life), at the angle of the mouth, and in 

 the length of the tail, which is longer in proportion than that shown 

 in the figure. In the two mounted specimens the throat is grisly 

 gray, darkest above, but decidedly lighter than the back, and grad- 

 ually growing lighter as it extends downwards. The skin, from Mr. 

 Comer, has a slightly darker throat, but still gray and not so dark as 

 in the figure, in which it is about the same color as the back. Neither 

 does the bright yellow color of the crest extend clear down to the 

 base of the bill (culmen), in any of our birds. In all, the first short 

 feathers are entirely black for a distance of ^ to f of an inch, beyond 

 that they are so strongly tipped with black that no yellow shows, 

 when they are in place, for a distance of half an inch from the base 

 of the culmen. This black at the base of the bill is very pure and 

 intense and gives quite a different appearance to the bird from that 

 shown in the figure. In Sharpe's figure (op. cit., pi. viii, fig. 2), this 

 is correctly shown, but he fails to show any difference in the color 

 of the throat and head and omits entirely the naked patch at the 



