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Mr. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited a fine specimen of a Sabine's 

 Gull (Xema sabinei) in the plumage of the first year. It 

 had been shot near Christchurch early in November 1903 

 by Mr. E. A. Dobree. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe described a new species of Swift 

 from Camaroons as 



Cypselus batesi, n. sp. 

 $ . C. unicolor, velutino-niger, vix purpureo nitens ; gutture 

 paullulum fuscescente ; cauda valde f urcata. Long, 

 tot. 57 poll., culm. 0*25, alse 5*15, caudle I'd, rectrice 

 extima 2*65, tarsi 0'3. 

 Hah. Efulen, Sept. 29, 1903 (G. L. Bates). 

 This species appears to have no near ally. Its black throat 

 and black head distinguish it from C. toulsoni, which is the 

 only species which seems at all to resemble it. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe gave a short account of the voyage 

 of the turbine yacht i Emerald/ on which he had been the 

 guest of Sir Frederic Johnstone, Bart., and his -wife the 

 Countess of Wilton. The 'Emerald' started from Monte 

 Carlo on the 19th of November, 1903, and reached Funchal 

 in Madeira on the 29th of the same month. On the 4th of 

 December the ship left Funchal for the West Indies, arriving 

 at St. Thomas on the 18th of December, being the first 

 turbine yacht to cross the Atlantic. From St. Thomas 

 (Dec. 18-20) to St. Kitts (Dec. 21) the expedition pro- 

 ceeded to Dominica, where a stay of five days was made at 

 Roseau and Portsmouth (Dec. 22-28). 



On the 28th the yacht left Dominica, and steamed past 

 Martinique, where a halt was made and a short visit paid in 

 the late afternoon of December 28th to St. Pierre — that 

 dreadful city of the dead. Santa Lucia (Dec. 29) was the 

 next place of call for coaling, and so on to Grenada, where 

 New Year's Day was spent. 



On the 4th of January the ' Emerald ' left for Trinidad, 

 but, owing to the scare of small-pox and the subsequent 

 quarantine, no landing was possible, and after a stay of a few 

 hours off this beautiful island, the yacht arrived at Porlamar, 



