Letters, Announcements, ^c. 883 



Podiceps minor. Seen killed on Lake Bigulia. 



Himantopus melanopterus. Fresh^ and skin in course of 

 being mounted. Shot at Aleria. 



Machetes pugnax. 1st February ; shot by me near Lake 

 Bigulia ; the only one seen, 



Anser segetum. In the flesh. Shot near Lake Bigulia^ 



Not very plentiful winter visitant. 



Yours faithfully, 



W. Jesse. 

 24th April 1876. 



Dresden, May 15th, 1876. 

 Zoological Museum. 



Sir, — In ' The Ibis ' for April, page 246, a passage, quoted 

 from Dr. Beccari's " Ornithological Letter," could be inter- 

 preted as if I got my Arfak birds from the missionary of 

 Andei. I beg leave to state, as I have already in several 

 other journals where Beccari's interesting " Ornithological 

 Letter " was published, that my birds were hunted in 1873, 

 partly by myself and my company on the southern slopes of 

 the Arfak mountain-chain, partly in two expeditions of my 

 hunters, which were organized and directed by myself, ad 

 hoc, from the northern base of the mountains, where I was 

 obliged to remain ill with fever, acquired in the swamps 

 of the MacCluer Gulf. The heights reached on these expe- 

 ditions were 3500 and 5500 feet respectively. The ornitho- 

 logical result of these Arfak tours amounted to 500 birds, 

 many of which were and still are in the hands of my ornitho- 

 logical friends in your country. You will find the details of 

 these trips, accompanied by the necessary notes, on the two 

 maps which I hope soon have the pleasure of sending you. 



Yours very truly, 



A. B. Meyer. 



June 9th, 1876. 

 Sir, — The name of Astur cruentus was first published in 

 the P. Z. S. for 1842, when it was applied by Mr. Gould to 

 the Goshawk of Western Australia. 



