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Fratercula arctica. 1. St. Kilda. Upper surface and 

 neck white, spotted with black. 



1. St. Kilda. Entirely white; only wings and tail 

 partially black. 



<$ ad. Faroe Islands. Above white, with black 

 spots ; crown black, with a few white spots. 



^ . Faroe Islands. Entirely white ; only wings and 

 tail with a few black feathers. 



$ . Faroe Islands. Pale buffy brown. 



Uria grylle. Greenland. Above mostly white. 



Uria lomvia. <$ ad. Greenland. Above slaty grey. 



<J ad. Greenland. Above very pale silvery grey. 



Alle alle. Above white and black. 



Anas boschas. ? . Elbe, near Hamburg (Wiebke coll.) . 

 Tail with much white ; neck and under surface creamy 

 buff ; bill rather narrow. (Supposed by Messrs. Wiebke 

 to be a hybrid of a Mergus and Anas boschas, for which 

 belief, however, there is no foundation.) 



Mareca penelope. ? . Scotland. Upperside, neck, and 

 breast pale grey, with white edges to the feathers. 



Nettion crecca. Germany. Of a very pale brown ; wings 

 mostly white. 



Fulica atra. 1. Lenkoran. Pale buffy grey; tips of 

 wings and tail, and edges to the feathers of the back, 

 creamy white. 



2 juv. England. Fore-neck and chest white. 



Porphyrio melanonotus. 1. New Zealand. Wings and 

 tail with broad white ante-apical cross-bands ; bases of 

 upper wing-coverts, under tail-coverts, and a few 

 feathers on the sides of the chest white. 



1 ? . Nelson, New Zealand. Similar to the former, 

 but with the white bands on the wings and tail much 

 narrower, and the feathers of the mantle, as well as 

 some more on the sides of the chest, white. 



1. New Zealand. Broad tips to some of the feathers 

 above and below, and tips to quills, buffy white. 



