Vol. x.] cvi 



p. 279) . A fourth was in Mr, Rothschild's collection at Tring. 

 It was collected by Schimper and Baron von Miiller and was 

 "abelled " Nubia" (see Hartert, ' Novitates Zoologicse/ vol. i. 



.3). 



Mr. T. Parkin made some observations on the abundance 



bird-life noticed by him in the Southern Oceans. 



he following is the list of birds obtained during a day's 



(ting in a calm on December 2nd, 1890, in the Cape 



i, when on a voyage to Australia in the clipper ship 



raon/ South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 39° 51' S., long. 



E. 



Wandering Albatrosses (Diomedea exulans). 

 Black-eyebrowed Albatrosses {D. melanophrys). 

 Culminated Albatrosses {Thalassogeron culminatvs). 

 'ellow-nosed Albatross (T. chlororhynchus) . 

 'j Petrel {Priofinus cinereus) . 

 y Petrel (Priocella glacialoides) . 

 2k Petrel {Majaqueus aquinoctialis) . 

 trel ? ( (Estrelata incerta) . 

 iged Petrels {(Estrelata mollis). 

 bed Storm-Petrels (Wilson's) (Oceanites 



Storm-Petrels {Cymodroma melanogaster) . 

 -uuicd Storm-Petrel (C. grallaria). 

 like Prions {Prion desolatus). 



'ycraft gave a brief summary of the results 



investigations in the Morphology of the 



suggested a new basis of classification for this 



group. Dr. R.\Bowdler Sharpe and the Hon. Walter 



Rothschild took^part in the discussion which followed. 



Mr. W. R. OgilVie Grant sent a description of a new 

 species of Stone-Pheasant collected by Lord Delamere in 



* The Wandering Albatrosses were all I). exulans, and, so far as my 

 nemory goe3, none of them could come under the head of D. regxa. ■ 



