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Tlie work will be issued in about ten parts, in 4to, each 

 containing six plates, with corresponding letterpress. The 

 first part will appear next September. The price of each 

 part will be twelve florins. 



Yours, &c., 



Pelzeln. 



Sirs, — In my paper on Trackyphonus {antea, p. 109) there 

 is a misprint, which I beg of you to allow me to correct. 

 Under Tr. boehmi is given, as a locality, '^ Abdul Gindi, (Mus. 

 Paris)."" Now Abdul Gindi is the name of an Egyptian 

 person, not of a locality. M. Oustalet informed me that the 

 specimen in question was obtained from Abdul Gindi. 



Yours, &c., 



G. Hartlaub. 



Bremen, 20th April, 1886. 



74 Jermyn Street, St. James's, 

 May 17th, 1886. 



Sirs, — I have lately returned from a pleasant two months' 

 sojourn in Egypt and at Athens, during which a few orni- 

 thological facts came under my notice which I think worth 

 recording in ' The Ibis.* I left Naples on 25th of January 

 last by an Italian steamer bound for Malta. On the morn- 

 ing of the 27th I found myself in the harbour of Catania, 

 with a few houi's to spend on shore. 1 went at once to the 

 bird-market, and there saw no less than ten Purple Gallinules 

 {Poj'phyrio cceruleus) exposed for sale, which the vendors told 

 me came from the pantani, or marshes, a few miles to the 

 south of Catania. About two hours later I went back to the 

 market, before returning to the steamer, and found that two 

 more Porphyries had been brought in. I bought two of the 

 best specimens for a franc each, took them with me to Malta, 

 and there skinned them. 



After staying a week at Malta I went by P. & O. steamer 

 to Port Said, and through the Canal to Suez. In the Canal 



