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issue of his third and concluding volume of the ' Ornithology 

 of Peru.' No such important work upon the birds of the 

 Neotropical Region has appeared since Pelzeln's 'Ornithology 

 of Brazil/ We have here the results of the various expedi- 

 tions of MM. Jelski and Stolzmann, collected in a uniform 

 shape^ and combined with those of the many other authors 

 who have treated of Peruvian ornithology. 



The number of species to be attributed to the avifauna of 

 Peru, according to M. Taczanowski's researches, is 1349, 

 which, though large when we consider the extent and variety 

 of elevation of the country, is not greater than we might 

 have expected. On turning to the excellent map prepared 

 by M. Stolzmann which accompanies the third volume, and 

 in which the principal localities where collections have been 

 made are indicated, it will be at once manifest how large a 

 part of Peru still remains ornithologically unexplored. There 

 can be no doubt therefore that in the remote Andean valleys 

 rich harvests still remain for future collectors. The follow- 

 ing species appear to be described as new in the present 

 volume: — Picmnnus pvmctifrons, Chrysoptilus jmnctipectus, 

 ChaincEpetes tschudii, Crypturns rubripes, Nothoprocta god- 

 mani, and R alius peruvianus. 



XXVI. — Letters, Announcements, S^c. 



We have received the following letters addressed to the 

 Editors of ' The Ibis :'-— 



Slioreham, Ootacamund, 

 January 27th, 1886. 



Sirs, — I have just returned from a trip to Southern 

 Travancore, and I hope very shortly to send you a paper on 

 the birds which I collected there, as well as on a collection 

 made, in September 1884, on the Anamullai Hills. 



When in Trivandrum (the capital of Travancore), I was 

 asked to go through the collection of birds in the museum 

 there, and in doing so I came across two specimens of a 

 Laughing-Thrush and two specimens of a Blackbird. The 



