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differed in several points, the Scandinavian birds having 

 more white on the breast and wing-coverts, more black on 

 the belly, more grey on the rump, less rufous and wider 

 black bars on the under tail-coverts than British Greyhens. 

 Mr. Witherby remarked that as continental stock had been 

 introduced in many places in' Great Britain, care should be 

 taken to discover the origin of specimens examined. He was 

 much indebted to Lord William Percy, Mr. H. S. Gladstone, 

 and the late Professor Collett for having supplied him with 

 a number of specimens. While varieties were numerous in 

 collections, normal specimens were, in Mr. Witherby 's ex- 

 perience, very scarce and he had had some difficulty in con- 

 sulting a sufficiently large series for his purpose. 



Mr. Hubert D. Astley exhibited two living examples of 

 Psephotus dissimilis in immature plumage, which he had 

 succeeded in breeding in captivity for the first time. A 

 brood of five were hatched in October 1912, four being 

 reared to maturity. 



He said that this species was a native of North 

 Australia and little was known of its nidification in a 

 wild state. There was a doubt as to whether the late 

 Professor Collett had described the species correctly ; 

 for he wrote that his type specimen of Psephotus dis- 

 similis differed from P. chrysopterygius (Golden-shouldered 

 Parrakeet) in having a dark chestnut hood and no yellow 

 frontal band. 



Later Mr. A. J. North described a bird with a black hood 

 and named it P. cucullatus. 



It had since been claimed by Mr. Mathews that P. dis- 

 similis and P. cucullatus were synonymous and that Collett 

 had erred in describing the crown as chestnut, when in 

 reality it was black. 



Mr. G. M. Mathews, who exhibited the type specimen of 

 Psephotus dissimilis Collett, said that he wished to correct a 

 mistake in the original description of that species (cf. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 356). There it had been stated that the 



