432 Letters, Extracts from Cuiresjjundence, Notices, «Sfc. 



To the Editor of ' The Ibis.' 



Stanley, Falkland Islands, 

 July 28 th, 1860. 



Sir, — Permit me to correct a slight error that appeared iu 

 the January Number of 'The Ibis ^ for this year, which Mr. 

 Tristram has been good enough to send me. In the illustrations 

 of the eggs of two Raptorial birds from the Falkland Islands 

 (Plate I.), the second egg (figured as a rare variety of the egg of 

 " Milvago australis ") is undoubtedly that of the Turkey Buz- 

 zard [Cathartes aura). See Mr. Gould^s description of this egg 

 in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for last year, p. 93. 

 I know of no variety of egg of Milvago australis, except that 

 some are lighter in colour than others, but they are invariably 



of the same shape. 



Yours, &c., C. C. Abbott. 



"VVe much regret that this mistake should have been made. It 

 occurred, no doubt, through the way in which the eggs were 

 identified, viz. by numbers attached to them. 



We have lately had an opportunity of examining a fine series 

 of birds from the Falkland Islands, collected by Capt. Pack. It 

 contains examples of five different species of Penguins : viz. 

 Aptenodytes forsteri, G. R. Gray ; Eudyptes chrysocome (Forst.) ; 

 E. chrysolophus, Brandt; E. papua (Forst.), and Spheniscus 

 magellanicus (Forst.). There can be little doubt that Capt. 

 Abbott's "Jackass Penguin" [antea, p. 336) has been wrongly 

 referred to Aptenodytes demersa, and that it is really the Sphe- 

 niscus magellanicus, which is a closely allied species. 



Baron Richard Konig-Warthausen informs us that, according 

 to Dr. Blasius (who has examined the parent-birds, now in the 

 Stuttgart Museum), the Falcon's egg, described by him in the 

 April Number of ' The Ibis ' [antea, p. 124), does not belong- 

 to Falco eleonorce, but to F. concolor. Dr. Blasius likewise pro- 

 nounces the little Tern obtained by Herr von Heuglin in the Red 

 Sea (of which the eggs are described antea, p. 125) to be Sterna 

 alhigena, Licht., and not S. senegalensis. Swains. 



