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From the same excellent authority, I find that the Starling 

 {Sturnus vulgaris) has certainly been met with two or three times 

 in Iceland — a fact which renders it probable that Gliemann was 

 not, as I had supposed, mistaken in saying that it had occurred 

 there. 



I am also reminded, by a notice of Mr. Baring-Gould's work 

 in a recent Number of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History ' (ser. 3. vol. xii. p. 397), that the late Etatsraad Rein- 

 hardt mentions (Vidensk. Selsk. Afh. vii. p. 96) that, in the be- 

 ginning of the summer of 1824, a flock of ten or twelve Glossy 

 Ibises {Falcinellus igneus) were observed on the southern extre- 

 mity of Iceland. 



I am. Sir, 



Yours obediently, 



Alfred Newton. 



November 30, 1863. 



Sir, — Reading in ' The Ibis ' of last year the review of the 

 Memoir of Bewick, I observe a list given of his works. I bought 

 at a sale the other day a book called ' A New Family Herbal,' 

 by Robert John Thornton (pubHshed by Richard Phillips, Bridge 

 Street, Blackfriars, London, 1810), in which the plants are stated 

 to be " drawn from nature " by Henderson, and " engraved on 

 wood by Thomas Bewick." This forms, I fancy, an addition to 

 your list of his works. 



Yours, &c., 



J. W. P. Orde. 



A letter addressed to the Editor by Mr. E. L. Layard (dated 

 Cape-town, September 18th) mentions that the writer had lately 

 seen at Simons Bay, in the possession of Lady Walker, the wife 

 of Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, living specimens of two very in- 

 teresting species of Guinea-fowl from the eastern coast of Africa. 

 These were N. vulturina, brought from the east coast, a little 

 northwards of Zanzibar, and N. cristata (?), of which the exact 

 locality had not been ascertained. [The eastern form of iV. 



