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]). 279) . A fourth was in Mr. llothschilcPs collection at Tring. 
It was collected by Schimper and llaron von Muller and was 
labelled ‘'Nubia” (see Hartert, ' Novitates Zoologicae/ vol. i. 
p. 3). 
Mr. T. Parkin made some observations on the abundance 
of bird-life noticed by him in the Southern Oceans. 
d’he following is the list of birds obtained during a day’s 
shooting in a calm on December 2nd, 1890, in the Cape 
Seas, when on a voyage to Australia in the clipper ship 
' Sobraon,’ South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 39° 51' S., long. 
8° 49' E. 
*7 Wandering Albatrosses {Dlo?nedea e.rulans). 
2 Black-eyebrowed Albatrosses {D. melanophrys) . 
0 Culminated Albatrosses [Thalussogeron culminatus). 
1 Yellow-nosed Albatross {T. chlororhynckus) . 
1 Great Grey Petrel {Priojinus cmereus) . 
I Silver-grey Petrel (Priocella glacialoides) . 
1 Great Black Petrel {Majaqueus ceguinoctialis) . 
1 Brown Petrel? [CEstrelata incerta). 
2 Soft-plumaged Petrels (CEstrelata mollis). 
2 Yellow- webbed Storm-Petrels (Wilson’s) (Oceanites 
oceanicus). 
2 Black-billed Storm-Petrels (Cymodronia melanogaster) . 
1 White-billed Storm-Petrel (C. gr allaria). 
6 Dove like Prions (Prion desolatus). 
Mr. W. P. PvcRAFT gave a brief summary of the results 
of his recent investigations in the Mor[)hology of the 
Ratitse, and suggested a new basis of classification for this 
group. Dr. R. Bow'dler Sharpe and the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild took part in the discussion which follow'ed. 
Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant sent a description of a new 
species of Stone-Pheasant collected by Lord Delamere in 
* The Wandering Albatrosses were all I>. exulans, and, so far as tn_v 
memory goe.s, none of them could come under the head of I). regm. 
