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principal recipients of them, and it is time we should have the 

 credit of giving as well as taking. 



XXXIV. — Letters, Announcements, &^c. 

 The following letters, addressed " To the Editor of ' The Ibis,' " 



have been received : — 



Dobroyde, New South Wales, 

 24th May, 1806. 



Sir, — I have just had the opportunity of examining a fine 

 specimen of that rare bird, Pycnoptilus floccosus, Gould, which 

 has been forwarded to ISIr. KreiFt of the Australian Museum, 

 from South Australia. The label attached to the skin states 

 that it was obtained on the Lower Murray River. 



Mr. Gould's specimen, hitherto I believe considered unique, 

 was supposed to have been obtained on the upper part of the 

 Murrumbidgee (P. Z. S. 1850, p. 95). Should this supposition 

 be correct, it shows that this curious form has by no means a 

 very limited range. Had I been aware of the presumed exist- 

 ence of Pi/c7iopti!us previously to my recent visit to that river, 

 I might have obtained some information as to its habits ; on my 

 return thither, however, I will not neglect the subject. 



I am, &c., 



Edward P. Ramsay. 



Simla, 1 5th June, 1866. 



Sir, — Colonel Tytler has given me some information re- 

 specting the animals introduced by him into the Andaman 

 Islands, when Superintendent there, the publication of which 

 in ' The Ibis ' may prevent confusion hereafter arising from the 

 addition of species merely acclimatized to those indigenous to 

 the islands. 



With regard to birds, he introduced some six or seven of the 

 Common Calcutta Crow, Corvus splendens, of which only two 

 appear to have survived [antea, p. 220] . 



Acridotheres tristis from Calcutta and A. fuscus from Bur- 

 mah ; some four or five of each were imported. Both these 

 species have bred freely, and are now abundant. 



Passer montanus from Moulmein and P. indicus from Cal- 



