Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, S^c. Ill 



Boston Society of Natural History/ of which we had received 

 early copies. Looking over the perfect volume, which has lately 

 reached us, we find a third paper likely to interest the readers 

 of 'The Ibis,^ being some remarks by Dr. H. Bryant, " On some 

 of the Birds that breed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence*." The 

 occasion of these remarks was a trip that Dr. Bryant made to 

 Labrador in the summer of 1860, " for the purpose of procuring 

 specimens of eggs of those sea-birds that breed there, and also 

 to ascertain what changes, if any, had taken place in their eco- 

 nomy since Audubon's visit.'' The whole of Dr. Bryant's paper 

 will amply merit perusal, and, did space permit it, would be well 

 worthy of being reproduced in these pages. As, however, that 

 is not the case, we must content ourselves with stating that 

 notes, more or less copious, are given on Somateria mollissima, 

 Sula hassana, Phalacrocorax carbo, P. dilophus, Thalassidroma 

 leachii, Larus marinus, L. argentatus, Alca torda, Uria grylle, 

 U. troile, U. ringvia, U. lomvia, and some others. " Every 

 available spot on the sides of Gannet Rock, not already occupied 

 by Gannets or Kittiwakes, had been taken possession of by the 

 three last-mentioned species of Guillemots and the Razor-billed 

 Auks ; their comparative numbers were about three of U. troile 

 to two of U. lomvia and one of U. ringvia, and about one Auk 

 to fifty Guillemots." 



XI. — Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, 6fc. 

 We have received the following letters : — 



Akyab, Arracan, August 13, 1862. 



Sir,— In No. 7 of ' The Ibis,' for July 1860, p. 297, which 

 I have only now had an opportunity of seeing, occurs a passage 

 on which I beg the favour of your allowing me to say a few 

 words. 



In allusion to an " Itinerary" contributed by me to the 5th 

 Number of vol. xxviii. of the Asiatic Society's Journal, you re- 

 mark that " an appendix to this paper contains descriptions of 

 some birds supposed to be new, procured during the journey ; but 



* Proc. B. S. N. II. viii. p. 65. 



