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Turnstone, and last, but not least, Steller's Western Duck!! 

 Guernsey supplies us with the Calandra Lark ; Portugal, with 

 White's Thrush ; the Isle of Ushant, with Macqueen's Bus- 

 tard; Norway, with the Curlew Sandpiper; Uist, with the Red- 

 throated Pipit, Pectoral Sandpiper, and Great Northern Diver, 

 Several pairs of the Two-barred Crossbill have bred at Loch 

 Fyne, to say nothing of the Jack Snipe; while we are offered the 

 Brown Snipe [Macrorhamphus griseus), with the bird that laid 

 the eggs, from Pwllheli in North Wales ! Many additions to the 

 British fauna are presented for the first time, Arran enriching 

 our list with specimens of Circaetus gallicus and Sterna tenuiros- 

 tris. The catalogue is appropriately wound up with the egg of 

 the Bimaculated Duck, from Siberia, and the travelling-case in 

 which all these prodigies were exhibited to the wondering gaze 

 of Dr. Thienemann. 



These instances may suffice to show the sort of verification 

 which is offered to the purchasing collector. Although no 

 naturalist could be thus imposed upon, it may not be useless to 

 urge upon the readers of ' The Ibis ' the importance of endea- 

 vouring to infuse healthier principles into the minds of their 

 collecting friends, and remembering that truth — truth for its 

 own sake — is the one aim and object of the naturalist, to 

 denounce all shams, all indulgence of the passion for merely 

 amassing, and to let their cabinets, as well as their studies, be 



like Caesar's wife. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



OoPHILUS, 



During the past month numerous instances of the occurrence 

 of Pallas's Sand-grouse [SyiThaptes paradoxus) in this country 

 and the neighbouring parts of the Continent have taken place. 

 One of our most valued contributors has promised us an account 

 of this new immigration from Tartary for our next Number. 



