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reuce in Borneo of an lanthoenas, I tliiuk /. griseigularis, or 

 a Pigeon but slightly difltei'ing from it. Two were seen a 

 few days ago on Pulan Tiga, an island just north of Labuan, 

 and I obtained one of them. They are probably stragglers 

 from one of the Philippine Islands. 



Yours &c., 



A. Everett. 



Newton Lochmaddie, North Uist. 

 17tli Juue, 1687. 



Sirs, — While standing on the pier at Lochmaddie yesterday 

 I observed a Common Swift [Cypselus apus) ; it passed from 

 west to east, and as I was obliged to leave to attend to 

 business, I cannot say whether it remained about or not. 

 Neither I nor my factor, Mr. John MacDonald, who is an 

 intelligent observer, have ever observed this bird in North 

 Uist; but the latter has seen them in the Minch, and as I 

 read in the last edition of ' Yarrell's Birds ' that the Outer 

 Hebrides are excepted from its British range, I think it well 

 to note the fact of its appearance here. I may add that in 

 the first days of May, when on a voyage from Bio de Janeiro 

 and approaching Madeira, but out of sight of land, I saw 

 a Swift which accompanied the steamer for some little time. 

 It was certainly not Cypselus melba, by its size, and I did not 

 make out or notice any white on the throat, though this might 

 well be owing to my eyesight, which is not as good as in my 

 younger days"^. 



Yours &c., 



John W. P. Campbell-Orde. 



P.S. — 'In a note to 'Yarrell," p. 371, vol. ii., I observe mention 

 of the Needle-tailed Swift. I have in my collection a specimen 

 killed in Bermuda about 1850, which I made out, as I thought, 

 to be the Australian CJuetara. If so, the range of this bird 

 is even wider than is mentioned in ' Yarrell ' f. 



* [It was possibly the Madekan Swift, C. unicolor, vfhich has no white 

 on the throat. — Edd.] 



t [This was, perhaps, the American Chimney S-ndf t, Chcetura pelagica^ 

 a spine-tailed species which straggles to Bermuda. — Edd.] 



