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fully adult females ; and those in which these parts are 

 yellowish-white, which we may assume to be fern ales in 

 their first year. Capt. Whitehead has also found the male 

 breeding in its first summer-dress, which he has described 

 (' Ibis/ 1909, p. 621) as being dark grey above with some 

 black feathers, and with the head and under-surface deep 

 yellow, sullied on the crown and flanks. A specimen in this 

 plumage is in the Natural History Museum. " 



Mr. Geoffrey Schw t ann exhibited an example of an 

 abnormally-coloured female Rook, with much of the plumage 

 of the back and wings greyish. It had been shot by Mr. P. 

 R. Croft at St. Margaret's, Ware, Hertfordshire, on the 

 12th of March, 1913, and had been noticed when a young 

 bird in 1912. A bird with similar light-coloured plumage 

 had been observed three years ago in the same locality. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant said that he had recently received a 

 Rook with most of the plumage rusty- brown and in very 

 worn condition. The specimen had been shot at Charterhall, 

 Duns, Berwickshire, and forwarded to the Natural History 

 Museum by Colonel A. R. Trotter, who said that other 

 similar specimens had been met with in the neighbourhood. 



Major H. J. Kelsall, R.A., exhibited an abnormal 

 specimen of the Standard-winged Nightjar, Macrodipttryx 

 macro dip terns (Lath.), in which the 8th as well as the 9th 

 primary quill in the right wing was elongated. The left 

 wing was normal. All three elongated pinions were of the 

 same length, viz. 395 mm. 



The specimen had been shot by Capt. H. S. Perrott, 

 R.G.A., near Waterloo (about 20 miles S.S.E.of Freetown), 

 Sierra Leone, on the 11th of February, 1912, and had been 

 given to Major Kelsall shortly after for preservation. The 

 specimen was now in the Collection of the Natural History 

 Museum. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant wished to call attention to the fact 

 that, when describing the birds from Henderson Island, 



