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serai tres flatte. Je regrette de ne savoir pas assez d^anglais 

 pour vous eviter la peine de les faire traduire. En attendant, 

 agreez,je vous prie, I'assurance de ma consideration distinguee. 



Votre devoue, 

 Leon Olph-Galliard. 



Norwich, June 14th, 1862. 



Sir, — Having before recorded the unusual appearance of 

 Shore-Larks [Otocorys alpestris) on our coast during the past 

 winter, it may be interesting to some of the readers of ' The Ibis ' 

 to learn that another specimen has occurred during the spring 

 migration. This bird (a male, like all the others) is now in my 

 possession, and was killed at Yarmouth about the 24th of April. 

 The man who shot it brought it up to Norwich, with several 

 Skylarks and Wagtails killed at the same time, and, not knowing 

 its value, gave it to a birdstuffer in this city, of whom I pur- 

 chased it directly afterwards. This specimen, as may be supposed 

 from its appearing so late in the spring, had very nearly assumed 

 its full summer plumage. The gorget on the neck and the patches 

 on the cheeks are pure black, and the yellow portions very 

 bright, with the horns clearly developed. It is by no means 

 improbable that this may have been a remnant of that small 

 band, of which the numbers were so thinned on their southward 

 passage down our eastern coast. I am, &c., 



H. Stevenson. 



Letters recently received from Mr. Blyth, dated January 20th 

 last, announce his return on the 6th December last to Calcutta, 

 " after making a great haul of fishes during a fortuight^s stay at 

 Akyab." Mr. Blyth subsequently writes : — 



" February 2. — Mr. Jerdon has just returned from a fort- 

 night's trip into the Colgong district of the Ganges and Raja- 

 mahal. He has obtained at least one new bird, of a new genus 

 akin to Tephrodornis and Hemipus, with comparatively large 

 legs. He found my Pratincola leucura abundant, and obtained 

 a female of Calliope pectoralis (the Himalayan species). 



