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M<=Coy, under the name of Pardalotus xanthopygus. Which of 

 these names must be considered entitled to priority? We 

 shall be glad if any naturalists who have paid attention to 

 the difficult subject of nomenclature will favour us with their 

 opinions on the subject. 



Mr. Robert Gray, of Glasgow, has in preparation an illustrated 

 work on the birds of the west of Scotland, including the Outer 

 Hebrides, a district respecting the ornithology of which very 

 little is as yet known. From this gentleman's intimate personal 

 acquaintance with the subject, we cannot doubt but the book 

 will contain an abundance of interesting information, and be 

 very acceptable to naturalists in general. 



It is fortunately some time since we have had to record the 

 loss of any of our fellow workers ; but now we regret to say we 

 have received intelligence of the deaths of three ornithologists 

 to whose labours our science is much indebted. Dr. Leotaud 

 of Trinidad, whose recent work on the birds of that island was 

 the subject of some valuable remarks by Mr. Sclater in our last 

 Number, is the first. The second is our friend Dr. Henry 

 Bryant of Boston, who died, we understand, during the winter 

 in the West Indies, whither he had been for some years in the 

 habit of going for the sake of his health. His loss is deeply 

 regretted by all who knew him, and by none more than his 

 fellow citizens and the members of the Boston Natural History 

 Society, to whom he had munificently presented the entire collec- 

 tion of the late Baron Lafresnaye, which he had recently purchased 

 at a very large price. The third is our own countryman Mr. 

 Prideaux John Selby, whose ' Illustrations of British Orni- 

 thology' and various other scientific works gave him a just 

 claim to the gratitude of all votaries of the study, though for 

 some years past he had taken no active part in its prosecution. 

 He died at Twizell House, his beautiful seat in Northumberland, 

 on the 28th of March in the eighty-seventh year of his age. 



