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. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 47 [Bull. 1976: 96(2)] Francisco). I wish especially to thank Prof. A. I. Ivanov of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences (ZIAS) in Leningrad for the loan of the holotype and other specimens used by Portenko, and to thank him and N. Litvinenko of the Far Eastern Science Centre at Vladivostok, E. G. F. Sauer, F. W. Merkel, and C. W. Benson for providing information about the species and locating specimens. R. C. Banks arranged for the loan of specimens in the United States. I am grateful to G. E. Watson who arranged for the lo
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 47 [Bull. 1976: 96(2)] Francisco). I wish especially to thank Prof. A. I. Ivanov of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences (ZIAS) in Leningrad for the loan of the holotype and other specimens used by Portenko, and to thank him and N. Litvinenko of the Far Eastern Science Centre at Vladivostok, E. G. F. Sauer, F. W. Merkel, and C. W. Benson for providing information about the species and locating specimens. R. C. Banks arranged for the loan of specimens in the United States. I am grateful to G. E. Watson who arranged for the loan of the other specimens and queried many more museums about specimens on my behalf as well as reading a late version of the manuscript; and to S. Olson and J. Farrand, Jr., who read an earlier draft and for their encouragement and many useful suggestions. References: Berne, L. B. 1954. Family Fringillidae, pp. 183-363. InG. P. Dementiev & N. A. Gladkov (eds.). Birds of the Soviet Union. Vol. 5. Moscow (English translation, Israel Prog. Sci. Translations). Gizenko, A. I. 1955. Birds of the Sakhalin Region. Moscow, Acad. Sci., (In Russian) Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1968. Subfamily Carduelinae, pp. 207-306. In R. A. Paynter, Jr. (ed.). Checklist of Birds of the World. Vol. 14. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. Portenko, L. A. i960. The Birds of the Part 4. Opredelieli po Faune , Acad. Sci., , 69. (In Russian) Portenko, L. A. 1962. New subspecies of passerine birds (Avcs, Passeriformes). Trudy Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci., 30: 385-394. (In Russian) Vorobiev, K. A. 1973. On some errors in ornithological studies. Zool. Journ. 52: 955- 957. (In Russian) Address: National Fish & Wildlife Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Washington 20560, On a variety of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus from Northern England by Eric Gorton Received 10 December rp/j A male example of the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus obtained at Bolton, La
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