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raising the number of East- Siberian birds enumerated by the 

 author in his various papers to about 462. Detailed descrip- 

 tions are given of Tetrao camtschaticus, Kitthtz, a form nearly 

 allied to Tetrao urogalloides, Midd.^ and Colymbus adamsi 

 is sliown to be perfectly distinct from C. glaciulis. The new 

 name Poecilia maci'ura is given to the form from Baikal pre- 

 viously described in the 'Bulletin^ of 1882 as P. borealis. 



XXIV. — Letters, Announcements, S^c. 



We have received the following letters addressed to the 



Editorsof ^ The Ibis:' — 



Florence, Feb. 21, 1884. 



Sirs, — With regard to the Coccyzus americanus shot near 

 Turin, and mentioned in my former letter (Ibis, 1881, p. 115), 

 I am glad to say that my friend Prof. Giglioli, acting with cha- 

 racteristic energy and promptitude, has succeeded in rescuing 

 it from the unworthy use to which it had been put, and that it 

 now forms an important addition to his most interesting and 

 complete collection of Italian birds. He has also added to 

 the collection another nearly adult specimen of Porphyrio 

 alleni, which was killed near Modica, in the south-east of 

 Sicily, Dec. 1881. This makes the third Italian-killed 

 specimen of this species actually in existence, the other two 

 having been procured in the marsh of Massaciuccoli, between 

 Pisa and Viareggio. One of these, nearly adult, is in the 

 Museum of Florence ; the other, much younger, in that of 



Pisa*. 



I am &c., 



E. Cavendish Taylor. 



Zoological Museum, Turin, 

 March 10, 18S4. 



Sirs, — Our latest authority on the Turdidse, Mr. Seebohm, 

 in the fifth volume of the Catalogue of Birds in the British 



[* It may be remembered that there is an immature example of this 

 species in the Museum of Madrid, obtained by Don Angel Guirao, near 

 the Mar menor in South-eastern Spain, in the autumn of 1854 (c/. H. 

 Saunders, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1877, p. 188).— Edd.] 



