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Show 800 DR. A. B. MEYER ON THE ECLECTI. [Nov. 20, pale yellow acuminate feathers on the collar, which are rarely in specimens from the Falklands. 16. STERCORARIUS CHILENSIS, Bp. Lestris antarcticus, var. e, chilensis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 207 Stercorarius chilensis, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 323. [No. 718, d • Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 18th, 1876. Eyes brown ; stomach had fish & c ] A freshly moulted but somewhat immature specimen. Hitherto no examples of this well-marked form have been obtained beyond the eastern exit of the Straits of Magellan, its range being apparently to the westward and northward along the coast as far as the lat. 23° S. Since writing my notice of the Stercorariince (loc. cit.), I have an opportunity of verifying the correctness of my opinions by the examination of Bonaparte's type in the Berlin Museum. 17. STERCORARIUS POMATORHINUS (Temm.). Lestrispomarinus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 514 (1815). Stercorarius pomatorhinus, Newton, Ibis, 1865, p. 509; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 324. [1 specimen. Off Inosima, Japan, May 1875.] A very fine adult bird, the golden tips to the feathers on the sides of the neck being very rich, and the dusky pectoral band being faint in the centre. This is quite a new locality for this species ; for although its occurrence as a straggler once on the coast of Tenasserim, and once at Cape York, North Australia, would lead to the expectation that it would find its way downwards through the North Pacific, yet the only other locality on that side hitherto recorded is that of the Prybilov Islands, a long way to the N.W. The date, and the fact of this specimen being an adult, make this link in the chain of our knowledge of its geographical distribution particularly interesting. 10. Some additional Proof, if needed, of the Fact that the Red Eclecti are the Females of the Green ones. By Dr. A. B. M E Y E R , Director of the Royal Zoological Museum, Dresden. Communicated by the Secretary. [Eeceived 26th October, 1877.] (Plate LXXIX.) My assertion that the red Eclecti are the females of the green ones * did not at first meet with approval from many sides ; but I suppose that now it begins to be looked upon as correct Nevertheless it may not be superfluous to recur to the question, the more so as the facts which I have to record are much to the point. Some time ago the Dresden Museum received a specimen of 1 Verb. k. k. zool.-bot, Gesellscb. Wien, 1874, and Mittheilungen a d k zool Mus. Dresden, Heft i. 1875. |