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Mr. Fortune's Eudtjnamis australis, Sw., from China (p. 32), 

 must surely be a joke. I shall have again to appeal to my 

 collection at home. E. orientalis I have received from Siam, 

 and I know it to be the Philippine species. The Australian 

 species would have therefore, if really found in China, to 

 traverse the ground of its Asiatic ally twice a year in its 

 migrations. This can scarcely be likely. 



The note on Turnix (p. 33) is highly interesting. T. maculosa, 

 Temm., is the commoner species in South China. The other 

 is allied to T. ocellata, Scop., but I am not yet prepared to 

 affirm that it is identical with it. I mentioned, in a letter, that 

 my new Formosan species, T. rostrata (allied to T. maculosa), 

 was shot while attending to its young [Ibis, 1865, p. 543], and 

 that on dissection it proved to be a male, and that its mate was 

 not forthcoming. I am inclined to think that even in its 

 nidificatory instincts the Struthious affinities are prominent, and 

 that it will be eventually found that the entire duties of incuba- 

 tion are attended to solely by the male. It would be as well to 

 call the attention of observers in other parts of the world to 

 this important idea. The four chickens of T. rostrata that 

 I procured under the circumstances before detailed I have 

 bottled, and shall be sending home shortly for Mr. Parker's 

 investigation. 



Sturnus dauricus. Pall. (p. 41, note), has occurred at Tientsin 

 (North China) in summer. I should like much to know 

 whether it is found in the Malayan peninsula all the year. 

 Fregilus graculus from Java {loc. cit.) : I can confidently affirm 

 that I saw a mounted specimen of this species in the "' India 

 Museum " marked " Java." 



Cypselus subfurcatus, Blyth {loc. cit.), as its name implies, has 

 a more furcate tail than its ally C affinis, J. E. Gray. The 

 mistake is not mine, but the printer's. While on misprints I 

 may just mention one that ought specially to be corrected. It 

 occurs in my ' Formosan Ornithology,' p. 58, 5th line. For 

 " birds'-eggs " read " birds' legs." 



Butalis liypogrammica, Wallace (p. 43). While in England 

 I saw a specimen of this bird in the British Museum, and was 

 struck with its resemblance to my B.griseisticta. I allowed myself, 



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