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p. 279). A fourth, in the Hon. Walter Rothschild's collection 
at Tring, was procured bySchimper and Baron von Muller, and 
was labelled <f Nubia” (see Hartert, f Novitates Zoologicse,' 
vol. i. p. 3). 
Mr. T. Parkin made some observations on the abundance 
of bird-life noticed by him in the Southern Oceans. 
The following was 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° 5T S., long. 
8°49'E. 
*7 Wandering Albatrosses (Diomeclea exulans). 
2 Black-eyebrowed Albatrosses [D. melanophrys). 
6 Culminated Albatrosses (Thalussogeron culminatus ). 
1 Yellow-nosed Albatross ( T. chlororhynchus ). 
1 Great Grey Petrel (Prioftnus cinereus ). 
1 Silver-grey Petrel (Priocella glacialoides ). 
1 Great Black Petrel (Majaqueus eequinoctialis). 
1 Brown Petrel ((Estrelata incerta) ? 
2 Soft-plumaged Petrels {(Estrelata mollis), 
2 Yellow-webbed Storm-Petrels (Wilsou's) (Oceanites 
oceanicus). 
2 Black-billed Storm-Petrels (Cymodroma melanogaster ). 
1 White-billed Storm-Petrel (C. grallaria), 
6 Dove like Prions (Prion desolatus). 
Mr. W. P. Pycraft gave a brief summary of the results 
of his recent investigations in the Morphology of the 
Ratitse, and suggested a new basis of classification for this 
group. Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe and the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild took part in the discussion which followed. 
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 D. exulans, and, so far as my 
memory goes, none of them could come under the head of D. regia. —T. P. 
