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whole extent of the Himalayas to Kashmir. In the cold weather 

 it visits the plains at the foot of the hills. I have killed it in 

 the Dehra Doon. 



[To be continued.] 



XX. — Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, Sfc, 

 We have received the following letters addressed to " The 

 Editor of ' The Ibis ' " :— 



Marldon, Totnes, 8th February, 1871. 



Sir, — Captain Shelley, in his very interesting paper on the 

 Ornithology of Egypt, expresses a doubt {antea, p. 39) as to 

 whether the Gypaetus which occurs in that country is G. barba- 

 tus (Linn.), or G. meridionalis, Bon. [=nudipes, Brehm) ; and 

 it may therefore be desirable to mention that Dr. Riippell refers 

 the Egyptian bird to the latter species in his ' Systematishe 

 Uebersicht/ p. 3. 



With reference to another point upon which Captain Shelley 

 expresses himself as doubtful, viz. the occurrence in Egypt of 

 Haliaetus albicilla, I may mention that an immature specimen 

 in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris is marked as 

 having been obtained in the "Desert of Suez," and that an 

 interesting description of the nidification of this species in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Menzaleh is given by Dr. v. Ileuglin in 

 his recent work entitled ' Ornithologie Nordost-Afrikas,' p. 51, 



I am desirous also of supplementing Mr. Howard Sauuders^s 

 remarks on Aquila navioides (antea, p. 61) by the following 

 brief observations : — 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Saunders for a recent 

 opportunity of examining his fine series of Eagles, and I now 

 quite agree with him in believing the "cafe -au-lait-coloured " 

 Spanish Eagles to which he refers to be immature specimens 

 of Aquila imperialis, although when I first saw them I supposed 

 them to be examples of Aquila nrevioides in the first yearns 

 plumage, from wh'ch they can hardly be distinguished except 

 by their somewhat larger size. 



Mr. Howard Saunders, however, showed me a Spanish Eagle 

 from Lord Lilford's collection, which in my opinion is an un- 

 doubted specimen of Aquila ncevioides. Another Spanish specimen 



