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THE addition of six birds new to the British list, and the alteration in nomenclature of another, has been agreed to by the council of the British Ornitho logist's Union (Ibis., July 1934); and no less than three of the new types are birds from South Uist, Outer Hebrides, where they were distinguished and described by Col. Meinertzhagen. The newly added species are: the Hebridean twite (jfflanthis fiavirostris bensonorum) which is darker and not so red as the common twite (Linota (A.) f. flavirostris) and with blacker centres to its feathers, the under-parts being similar to the mainland birds; the Hebridean stonechat (Saxicola torquata theresoe), the female of which is not so red and darker above and below than the common stonechat (Saxicola t. hibemas), the black bases of her throat-feathers being more conspicuousâ the male is slightly darker above, especially on the forehead, but with the under-parts similar; the Hebridean hedge-sparrow (Prun ella modularis hebridium) with general darker plumage than the common hedge-sparrow (Accentor modularis occidentalis), the flanks being more heavily marked and streaked, the upper parts richer and more distinctly marked and the grey on the throat darker. The types of these three birds were obtained from South Uist, the latter bird being the least common. The other additions are the Scandinavian jackdaw (Corvus monedula monedula) from a specimen obtained at Lowestoft and described as a migrant to the east coast of England; the arctic ringed-plover (Charadrius hiaticula tundrae), a well-established race distinguished from the common bird (Ch. h.h.) by its smaller size and darker colour, nesting in Lapland, Arctic Russia and Siberia, a specimen in the British Museum being from Poole Harbour, Sussex; and the bridled or lesser sooty tern (Sterna ancethetus) of the West Pacific and Indian Oceans, which has been obtained from Dungeness and a Thames lightship. The British song thrush has been altered from Turdus philomelus clarkei to Turdus ericetorum ericetorum, and correspondingly, the continental song thrush to T. e. planiceps, and the Hebridean song thrush to T. e. hebridensis.
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New British Birds. Nature 134, 658 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134658a0
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