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XXXIII. — Letters, Announcements, S^c. 



We have received the following letters, addressed to the 

 Editors of The Ibis: '— 



Sirs, — In the notice published in the April number of 

 'The Ibis/ p. 213, on my paper on the subgenus Globicera, 

 it is stated that, of the Globicera section of the genus Car- 

 jjophaga, I recognize seven species, all o£ which, with one 

 exception, are found in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. The 

 reviewer also says that " C. myristicivora has a more western 

 range than the other six species, frequenting nearly the entire 

 New-Guinea area, including many of the adjoining islands.^^ 

 As to the last statement the reviewer is quite in error. I have 

 stated in the most distinct way that C. myristicivora, from 

 what we know, inhabits, besides the western islands of Sal- 

 watty, Batanta, Mysol, Waigiou, Eawak, Ghemien, Gagie, 

 and Guebeh, the west coast of the northern peninsula of New 

 Guinea ; from no other place in New Guinea but Sorong 

 have I seen C. myristicivora. As to the other six species, one, 

 C. pacifica, inhabits nearly all the islands between Savage 

 Island (to the east of the Friendly Islands) and the eastern 

 Papuan islands, as far as D^Urville Island on the northern 

 coast of New Guinea ; C. rubricera and C. rufigula live in the 

 eastern Papuan islands ; and only the remaining three species 

 are confined to one or another group of the Polynesian 

 islands — that is, C. oceanica to the Caroline and Pelew 

 Islands, C. aurora and C. wilkesi to Aurora Island and 

 Tahiti, both of the Society group, respectively. 



Yours &c., 



T. Salvadori. 



Sirs, — The receipt by the last mail of the ''Zoological 

 Proceedings ' for 1876, part 3, sent me at once to identify, by 

 the light of my friend Howard Saunders's lucid paper " On 

 the Sterninse," the " Noddies " I obtained in Fiji. I at once 

 saw that the bird which, guided by Finsch and Hartlaub's 

 ' Fauna Centralpolynesiens,' I have always identified as Anous 



