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West Wickham, Kent, 

 Sept. 14, 1878. 



Sirs, — In Messrs. Blakiston and Fryer's list of the birds 

 of Japan, published in the July number of 'The Ibis' for 

 the present year (pp. 209-250), but two species of Garrulus, 

 G. brandti and G. japonicus, are recorded as being natives 

 of Japan. To these Garrulus lidthi of Bonaparte (P. Z. S. 

 1850, p. 80, t. xvii.) should certainly be added ; for though 

 for a long time its exact patria was uncertain, yet now there 

 can be little doubt [conf. Count Salvadori's observations in 

 Atti Ace. Reale Tor. vii. pp. 473-476 [1872], duly noticed in 

 ^The Ibis' [1873, p. 478] and 'Zoological Record' [1872, 

 p. 53]) that Japan is the true habitat of this fine Jay. I 

 believe, however, that the exact island or islands where it 

 occurs have yet to be ascertained. 



I am, yours &c., 



W. A. FoKBES. 



The Bremen Museum. — Dr. Pinsch has, as many of our 

 readers will regret to hear, resigned the Curatorship of the 

 Bremen INIuseum, which he has held for a period of fifteen 

 years, in order to undertake a scientific mission to the Pacific, 

 Dr. Finsch will leave Europe for San Francisco and Honolulu 

 as soon as the publication of the results of the North-German 

 Siberian Expedition are completed. He is succeeded at 

 Bremen by Dr. Ludwig, lately Assistant in the Zoological 

 Museum of Gottingen. 



Cams' s ' Zoologischer Anzeiger.' — We beg leave to call the 

 attention of our readers to the new serial which Prof. J. 

 Victor Carus, of Leipzig, is now bringing out under this name. 

 The 'Zoologischer Anzeiger' gives the titles of all newly 

 published works on zoology, as also of papers published in 

 periodicals, and thus forms a kind of sequel to the well-known 

 ' Bibliotheca Zoologise ' of Carus and Engelmann. Short sci- 

 entific communications and other notices are also inserted, as 

 likewise lists of the names and addresses of the occupants of 

 official posts in Museums, Universities, and other scientific 

 institutions. Four numbers are already issued. 



