Vol. xv.] 3.2 



(vol. i. p. 401), a specimen in the British Museum (cf. 

 Sharpe, Catalogue of Birds, iii. p. 54), and a specimen shot 

 in Strode Park, Heme, on November 17, 1885. 



Mr. J. L. Bonhote exhibited a specimen of Bartranr's 

 Sandpiper that had been shot near St. Keverne, Cornwall, in 

 October 1883, and had been recorded in the ' Zoologist ' of 

 that year (p. 495). Mr. Bonhote had recently received the 

 specimen from Mrs. Leverton, of Truro, whose husband, the 

 late Dr. Leverton, had shot it. Mr. Harting had recorded 

 some eight occurrences of this American species in England, 

 this specimen being the last record. 



Dr. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Frederick 

 Stubbs, the Secretary of the Oldham Field Naturalists' and 

 Photographic Society, a specimen of the Pacific Eider 

 {Sumateria v-nigrum) , which had recently been killed in the 

 Orkneys. This was the first record of the species in the 

 British Islands. 



Mr. Stubbs had sent the following note on the occur- 

 rence : — 



" The bird, a drake in fully adult plumage, was received 

 by me in the flesh, from a Scarborough dealer, on 

 December 17th, 1901. The black chevron on the chin and 

 other characters led me to believe that the bird was 

 not a Common Eider, but an example of S. v-nigrum, a 

 species hitherto unrecorded for Europe, and I at once wrote 

 to the dealer for particulars of the locality in which it had 

 been obtained. The reply was to the effect that the Eider 

 was shot at Graemsay, Orkney, on December 14th. From 

 entirely independent inquiries made in Orkney it appears 

 that the Eider was shot at Graemsay in the early morning of 

 December 14th by a wild-fowler named George Sutherland, 

 and was sent with some Common Eiders to the Scarborough 

 dealer in the ordinary way of trade." 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., described a new 

 species of Cassowary as 



Casuarius roseigularis, n. sp. 



Nearest to Casuarius loria. Occiput, hind-neck, and 



