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The male of this splendid species, at first sight, looks like 

 the young male of P. coronata, but may be at once dis- 

 tinguished by the very much paler blue of the crown and 

 the bright yellow abdomen, the latter being dirty yellowish- 

 grey in the species just mentioned. P. exquisita is evidently 

 a near ally of P. opalizdns. Mr. Hoffmanns procured three 

 males and one female at Chuchurras in C. Peru, 320 m. elev. 

 The female has a certain resemblance to Pipra gracilis, 

 Hellm., from Matto Grosso, which is known only from a 

 single female specimen in the Vienna Museum; but besides 

 being larger, it differs in having a very much darker green 

 upper surface, a green jugular band, and pale yellow edges 

 to the inner webs of the remiges. 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke exhibited albino examples of two 

 Penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica and P. adelice), and eggs of 

 Daption capensis and Chionis alba, procured by the Scottish 

 National Antarctic Expedition in the South Orkneys. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild remarked that he had in his 

 collection albino examples of the following species of Pen- 

 guins : Aptenodytes patagonica, Catarrhactes chrysolophus, 

 Pygoscelis papua and Eudyptula minor ; also an entirely black 

 specimen of A. patagonica, which he believed to be unique. 



Dr. E. A. Wilson stated that the i Discovery ' brought 

 home two albino examples of Pygoscelis adelice procured in 

 the same rookery at Cape Adare in two successive seasons, 

 and possibly the offspring of the same parents. 



[In the British Museum there is a pure white example of 

 Catarrhactes schlegeli from the Macquarrie Islands, presented 

 by the Earl of Ranfurly. — Ed.] 



Mr. H. J. Pearson called the attention of the Members 

 present to a number of enlarged photographs of nests and eggs 

 which he had brought with him for exhibition. He pointed 

 out that by having the small photographs enlarged to natural 

 size the eggs of the various species were much more easily 

 recognized and identified by thoss looking at them. The 

 series included eggs of the Oyster-catcher, Turnstone, Little 

 Stint, and several species of Duck. 



