isties (v The powerful hooked beak and claw, the white head and neck and the tarsus upper half only, feathered. - Horned and barn owls were also seen. Museum - There a large number of foreign forms were seen. Among the forms of special interest is the ptarmigan, a bird of the arctic whose coloration (white) is protective in a region of snow and whose plumage changes to a mottled grayish upon the melting of the snow, in summer. The roseate spoonbill, the name of which is an indication of its distinguishing character- istic. The night heron (native) with black crown and few long, white crest feathers. The kiwi, somewhat smaller than a goose, which lays an extraordinarily large egg. - The egg of an extinct bird of madagas- car was seen. It was oval in form and had a capacity of two gallons.