142 Letters, Announcements, S^c. 



138. Anas clypeata. 



" In the market at Algiers " should be " lu the markets at 

 Algiers and Oran." 



The five following species may, I think, be added to my 



list :— 



BUDYTES CINEREOCAPILLA (Savi) . 



I shot a bright-coloured cock at Laghouat, with white 

 throat, dark ear-coverts, and no white line from eye to beak. 

 It was consorting with B.flava (L.), of which, no doubt, it 

 is a mere variety. 



Ardea purpurea, L. Purple Heron. 



I saw one in a shop at Algiers in May, recently set up. 



Larus LEucoPHiEus. Ycllow-leggcd Herring-Gull. 



Several in the harbour at Algiers. As I was leaving they 

 came so near to the steamer as to leave no doubt in my mind 

 of their being Herring-Gulls of some sort. 



PuFFiNus ciNEREus. Cincrcous Shearwater. 



Soon after leaving the roadstead these appeared, and con- 

 tinued (if I remember rightly) to the Balearic Isles, where 

 we also saw some Stormy Petrels. 



CuRSORius GALLicus. Crcam-colourcd Courser. 

 I saw this bird, as I firmly believe, in the Tibrem country, 

 running and flying before the heads of our mules. 



J. H. GuRNEY, Jun. 



Northrepps Hall, Norwich, 

 October 1874. 



Futtehgurh, N. W. P., 

 Sept. 29th, 1874. 



Sir, — At page 140 of 'Nests and Eggs,' Mr. Hume, 

 though quoting a portion of my account of the breeding of 

 Eudynamys honor ata"^, makes some statements in connexion 

 with the parasitical habits of this Cuckoo which are at 

 variance with my observations. Having paid " much atten- 

 tion" [italics are mine] to "their habits during the breed- 

 ing-season," he states that he has " never seen Crows feeding 

 * Cf. Ibis for 1873, p. 74. 



