386 Letters, Announcements, 6^c. 



Swiuhoe^s last article upon his Birds from Hakodate {' Ibis/ 

 1876, p. 330) :— 



P. 331. Hirundo americanal, from Kamtchatka, line 13, 

 read vent for " neck/' As this specimen has the whole under- 

 parts bright chestnut with a dark breast-collar, am I not right 

 in considering it the American bird ? 



P. 331. Ceryle rudis. A mistake. I sent Swinhoe a spe- 

 cimen of it. If you can find this, please see if it is not H. 

 coromanda. It agrees with the ' Fauna-Japonica ' figure of 

 H. coromanda major. 



P. 333. Schmniclus pallasi is also a mistake, I believe. As 

 far as I can find out, we have only S. pyrrhulinus, Swinhoe. 



P. 333. Urayus sibiricus also does not stand. Swinhoe, 

 more recently ('Ibis/ 1877, p. 145), has made this bird out 

 to be Carpodacus roseus. 



P. 334. The note concerning Tringa damacensis was in- 

 tended to refer to Rhynchtea bengalensis. 



Rediscovery o/ Polyplectron emphanes. — The discovery by 

 Mr. Everett (Lord Tweeddale's collector) of the true home of 

 Polyplectron emphanes^, in the Island of Palawan, Avhich was 

 announced at a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, is 

 of much interest, as, though this fine bird has been known for 

 the last fifty years, its true patria has remained a mystery. 

 We may even hope to ascertain before long the locality of 

 Pavo nigripennis, a bird found in many of our farmyards, but 

 of which the original sedes is a problem yet unsolved. 



Proposed B.O.U. List of British Birds. — At their recent 

 annual general meeting, the members of the British Orni- 

 thologists' Union appointed a Committee to draw up a list 

 of British birds, according to the most approved principles 

 of modern nomenclature. The Committee have already held 



* Temminck, who was no classical scholar, writes this name " em- 

 phanum.^^ But the Greek being encpavrjs, neuter €fi(f)aves, the correspond- 

 ing Latin term should be emphanes, unless it may be supposed to be 

 the neuter of fix(fiaiva>v, when " emphainon " would be orthographically 

 correct. 



