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It only remains for me to say that I have tried to compress 

 my remarks into as short a space as I could. I have therefore 

 not only refrained as much as possible from commenting on the 

 different quotations I have given, but I have endeavoured to cite 

 those authors alone whose statements seemed to deserve mention 

 here, whether from the originality of their observations or for 

 similar worthy reasons. It is very probable that I have omitted 

 to name some : in this case I shall be most ready to receive 

 additional information on the subject from any one. But I trust 

 I have already adduced a mass of conflicting testimony sufficient 

 to satisfy an impartial judge that there is much more in this 

 interesting matter than can be set at rest by a few words, un- 

 supported by any really new facts, in the tone which Dr. Gloger 

 has adopted ; and, for the honour of natural history and of 

 naturalists, the questions I have above propounded require 

 answers. 



Elveden, January 29, 1862. 



P.S. February 17, 1862. — Since the foregoing article was 

 written, I have received the fifth part of the ' Journal fiir Orni- 

 thologie' for 1861, which was published on the 25th January 

 last, and contains (p. 398) a short note from Professor Owen on 

 this subject. The Professor conclusively shows that he has been 

 egregiously misrepresented by Dr. Gloger, but is slightly in error 

 when he states that the French Academicians found a gular 

 pouch to exist in the Great Bustard. No mention is made by 

 them, in the account to which I have referred, of the existence of 

 such an organ in any one of the six male examples which they 

 examined. 



XVI. — Five Weeks in the Peninsula of Florida during the Spring 

 of 1861, with Notes on the Birds observed there. By George 

 Cavendish Taylor, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., &c. (Part I.) 



Owing to political events in America I was compelled to defer 

 my expedition to Florida, last spring, to a much later period than 

 I had originally intended, and the same causes brought it to an 

 abrupt termination. Before leaving Baltimore, I was so fortunate 



