472 Letters, Announcements, H^c. 



Wing 4iV" to 4|-" (second and third primaries longest, the 

 first very minute). Tail of twelve feathers, its length from 

 vent 2" to 2fV". Tarsus ff" to 1". Mid toe f" to \^' ; its 

 claw i". Hind toe -[^6 "j its claw I" to yV'- Bill, straight, |" to 

 \y' ; from gape |" to |t" ; width at gape yV' to i". The wings 

 when closed reached to within |" of end of tail. 



" Alaudula raytal, as described by Jerdon, is very common 

 along the sandy banks and dunes of the Jumna and other large 

 rivers in the upper provinces, and, like Esacus recurvirostris, is 

 found only in such localities. 



" I have often procured and preserved fine specimens of the 

 Pelecanus crispus in the upper provinces. Jerdon does not 

 include it." 



Mr. Blyth informs us that he has requested Mr. Hume to 

 favour him with good adult specimens of all the species of Pelican 

 that he can procure, calling his attention to the remarks on the 

 Indian species of this genus (pp. 178 et seq. antea). 



We have to record the deaths of Prince Maximilian of Wied, 

 and Mr. John Macgillivray. The Prince, who was born in 

 1782, had more than fifty years since travelled in Brazil, where 

 he formed a large ornithological collection, which many tourists 

 on the Rhine will remember to have seen at his unpretending 

 residence at Neuwied below Coblenz ; for its doors were always 

 thrown open with the greatest liberality to visitors. His High- 

 ness subsequently travelled in North America with the same 

 object. Mr. Macgillivray, the naturalist employed in the voyages 

 of the ' Fly ' and ' Rattlesnake,' had for more than ten years 

 been living in Australia, and at the time of his death was 

 meditating an expedition to explore the interior of New Guinea. 

 He was son to Prof. William Macgillivray, author of a well- 

 known * History of British Birds ' and many other works. 



