Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, S^c. 329 



Professor Baird has forwarded us a catalogue of North Ame- 

 rican birds, printed on thin paper in clear type, and useful for 

 labelling specimens or marking oflF desiderata. We believe it 

 is issued by the Smithsonian Institution, for the use of their 

 numerous collectors. 



XXXII. — Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Announce- 

 ments, S^c. 



It is with sincere regret that, although only arrived at our third 

 Number, we have already to record the loss of one of our con- 

 tributors. Mr. Edward Evans, the joint author with Mr. Wil- 

 son Sturge of the paper " On the Birds of Western Spitzbergen," 

 printed in our last Number, died at Neath on the 13th of April, 

 after a few days' illness, at the early age of twenty-six years. 

 The deceased gentleman was a member of the Society of Friends, 

 and, although so young, was conspicuous for his activity in the 

 furtherance of philanthropical objects. As ornithologists, we 

 must respect his memory, as that of a keen lover of our study, 

 and the traveller who brought to the knowledge of naturalists a 

 new and very interesting bird, the Lagopus hemileucurus. 



We have received the following letters : — 



To the Editor of The Ibis. 



Sir, — I trouble you with a few remarks upon the Dartford 

 Warbler {Sylvia provincialis, Temm.), a bird not uncommon on 

 the south coast, and near Brighton, particularly in the autumn. 

 Mr. Swaysland, Naturalist, 4 Queen's Road, Brighton, killed 

 five on the 30th of November, 1858, which I saw in the meat; 

 two of these were cocks and two hens; the other I do not 

 remember. At that period of the year you can get a good view 

 of them, and again in the spring ; in general they are too shy, 

 keeping low in furze. If there is a whitethorn bush in the 

 latter they always fly to it, and sitting on the top, cry pur, pur, 

 pur, swelling out the feathers of the throat. The hen in autumn 

 plumage appears lighter and smaller than the cock. These 

 little birds care not for snow, as under the thick furze they are 

 warm and comfortable. Mr. Tristram, who has lately done so 

 much for the science of ornithology, mentions in his " Catalogue 



