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showed a certain amount of dark pigment and cinnamon- 

 buff, while the under tail-coverts were mostly of the latter 

 colour. 



Varieties of this kind amongst Teal were extremely rare : 

 Mr. Walter Rothschild possessed a curious cream-coloured 

 specimen. 



Messrs. Williams & Son, Naturalists, Dublin, had kindly 

 forwarded the specimen exhibited, which had now become 

 the property of Mr. J. B. Nichols. 



Mr. C. Chubb exhibited, on behalf of Mr. F. V. 

 McConnell, examples of Berlepschia rikeri, Chlorophonia 

 roraimce, and Oceanodroma leucorrhoa, which had been 

 collected on the east bank of the Essequibo River, near the 

 mouth. 



He said that Mr. McConnell had very kindly presented 

 one of his two examples of Berlepschia rikeri to the Natural 

 History Museum, where the species had not hitherto been 

 represented. 



Mr. Chubb also remarked that Dr. C. W. Richmond had 

 drawn his attention to the following descriptions : — 



Myiospiza humeralis (Bosc), Journ. d/Hist. Nat. ii. p. 179, 

 pi. xxxiv. fig-. 4 (1792: Cayenne), which had priority over 

 M. manimbe (Licht.), 1823. 



Topaza smaragdulus (Bosc), op. cit. i. p. 385, pi. xx. fig. 5 

 (1792), which was the female of Topaza pella (Linn.), 1758. 



Mr. Witherby exhibited, the following varieties of Game- 

 Birds which he had recently received : — 



1. Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix). — A male killed at Bogra 

 Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, on the 10th of December, 1912, 

 by Mr. R. Martin, whose brother had kindly brought it to 

 Mr. Witherby for examination. This was apparently a bird 

 of the year, and was very much like the Blackcock he had 

 exhibited at the Meeting- held on the 12th of April, 1911 

 (Bull. B. O. C. xxvii. p. 79). It had most of the feathers of 

 the head, neck, upper mantle, throat, and upper breast barred 



