Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, ^c. 383 



Oriental' (Paris, Gide, 1845), contains (p. 417) a contribution by 

 Prof. Brandt, of St. Petersburg, entitled " Considerations sur les 

 Animaux Vertebres de la Siberia Occidentale," the third section 

 of which gives an " Enumeratio animalium vertebratornm Siberiffi 

 occidentalis." In the list of birds, two species of Cinclus are given 

 (p. 442), Cinclus aquaticus, Briss., and C. leucogaster, Eversm. ; 

 but no remarks on or description of either, further than the follow- 

 ing paragraph (p. 460) : — " Le genre Cinclus possede en Siberia 

 una espece qui parait lui etre propre, et que Eversraann a designee 

 par le nom de Cinclus leucog aster. Au reste elle a deja ete sig- 

 nalee par M. Pallas com me une variete." 



I am, &c., 



OSBERT SaLVIN. 



Dr. Hartlaub, writing to us lately from Bremen, says, repeat- 

 ing the information he gave to Mr. Gould : — 



" I believe that the first original description of Cinclus leuco- 

 gaster (Ibis, 1867, p. 118) was published by Eversmann in that 

 part of the ^Addenda ad Zoographiam Rosso- Asiaticam,' of which 

 the whole edition was destroyed by fire with the exception of a 

 very few copies. Cinclus leucocephalus is also in the Bremen 

 collection." 



The two species of Luscinia from South Africa mentioned by 

 Dr. Hartlaub (Ibis, 1867, p. 18) are surely ?io/ veritable Night- 

 ingales. They were originally described as Luscinia by Sunde- 

 vall (Obs. iu Levail. Ois. d'Afr. p. 44), but come very near to 

 Erythropygia and Ruticilla. ^Luscinia' sinuata of Sundevall 

 is congeneric with the ' Traquet familier ' of Levaillant, which 

 is in the Bremen Museum. 



The fine general collection of bird-skins formed by the late 

 lamented Hugh Edwin Strickland has recently been most libe- 

 rally presented by his widow to the University of Cambridge, and 

 will be lodged in the New Museum at that place, in the same 

 room with the Swainsonian Collection, which was purchased by 

 subscription in 1843, and given to the University. These two 

 collections probably contain more type-specimens than are to be 



