524 Letters, Announcements , 6^c. 



able to avert this erasure, as the Norwich Museum has re- 

 cently received from Mr. F. Ringer, of Nagasaki, the gift of 

 a typical specimen o{ B. maximus (sive zV/wa?;wA^), which was 

 shot on the Goto Islands, a group about 50 miles W.S.W. of 

 Nagasaki, and included in the south-western portion of the 

 Japanese group. 



I am &c , 



J. H. GURNEY. 



Nortlirepps Hall, Norwich, 

 Juue 14, 1886. 



Sirs, — At page 367 supra, in a report on Dr. Finsch's 

 and my paper on Birds from New Guinea, it was remarked, 

 concerning Microdynamis parva of Salvadori, that " the 

 exact locality of the specimen is not stated/'' I beg leave to 

 remark that in our first paper on Birds from New Guinea 

 (Paradiseidee), ^Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie,' 

 1885, p. 372, it was stated, in a note, that all birds men- 

 tioned by us without locality are from the Horseshoe 

 Mountains (see map, supra, p. 238). This note has not 

 been reproduced in the translation of our paper [supra, 



p. 240). 



Yours &c., 

 Dresden Zoological Museum, A. B. Meyer. 



July 13tli, 1886. 



[This is, no doubt, the case. But in our eyes " locality " 

 is of such importance that it is advisable to state it distinctly, 

 and not to leave it to be found out by reference to a foot- 

 note in a former paper, which may be easily overlooked. — 

 Edd.] 



Sirs, — I do not think that Ptilopus melanocephalus has 

 yet been recorded from Borneo or its adjacent islands. I 

 was ashore for a couple of hours on the island of Bangeuy 

 at the end of last month, when one of my servants shot a 

 male in full plumage. I am unable to say whether tliis 

 bird is permanently located in Banguey, or whether the one 



