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the 25th March, 1875, liave recently come under my notice, 

 and have been identified by our best authority on the Ster- 

 ninae, Mr. Howard Saunders. This Tern has, I believe, been 

 only known to inhabit the Red Sea ; and as it forms an ad- 

 dition to the fauna of India, its occurrence on the western 

 shores of that country may not be unworthy of record in 

 your pages. 



Yours etc., 



Walden, 



Chislehurst, June 15, 1876. 



Turin, June 15th, 1876. 

 Zoological Museum. 



Sir, — I have just received from Dr. Briiggeman a copy 

 of his paper " Beitrage zur Ornithologie von Celebes und 

 Sanghir,'' printed in the ' Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom 

 naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen,^ Band v. S. 35- 

 102, Taf. iii., iv. (1876). I wish to make a few remarks on 

 some points already noticed in a paper which I have pub- 

 lished in the ' Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di 

 Geneva,' vol. vii. p. 641-681, tav. xviii. (1875), with the title 

 " Intorno a due collezioni di Uccelli di Celebes, inviate al 

 Museo Civico di Genova dal Dr. O. Beccari e dal Signor A. 

 A. Bruijn.^' Dr. Briiggeman seems not to be acquainted 

 with my paper. 



Page 51, Halcyon cyanocephala. The author confirms the 

 idea expressed by me that this species is really different from 

 Monachalcyon pr'mceps. 



Page 80, sp. 99, Ptilinopus melanocephalus , var. celebensis, 

 Briigg., is my lotreron melanospila (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen, vii. 

 p. 671). 



Page 80, sp. 100, Ptilinopus michalis, Briigg., seems to be 

 my /. xanthorrhoa {I. c.) . 



Page 81, Ptilinopus sulaensis, Briigg., is my /. chrysorrhoa 

 (I.e.). 



Page 88, Megacephalon maleo. I have shown (/. c. p. 673) 

 that this bird was first desci'ibed by S. Miiller. 



Page 94. The genus Schizoptila, Briigg., has the same 

 type as my genus Gymnocrex (/. c. p. 678). 



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