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pale yellow ; throat greyish white ; breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts pale whitish fulvous ; thighs light brown ; 

 upper mandible brown, the under whitish horn-colour, dusky 

 on the sides ; tarsi and toes brownish black. 



The first primary is abnormally short, measuring but If^ 

 inch, third quill longest ; tail emarginate. 



Length 4| inches, wing 2^\, tail 2, bill |, tarsus \^. 



Hub. St. Domingo : obtained by Prof. W. M. Gabb. 



Type in National Museum, Washington, U. S. 



Remarks. This appears to be the smallest of the genus yet 

 described. The colouring of the upper plumage is most like 

 that of E. hammondi ; but it differs in having the breast devoid 

 of ashy colouring, and the abdomen, and especially the under 

 tail-coverts, having a decided fulvous tinge ; it wants the 

 white margins on the smaller quills, so conspicuous in most 

 of its allies. 



XXXV. — Letters, Announcements, 8^c. 



The following letters, addressed " To the Editor of ' Thr 

 Ibis,^ " have been received : — 



Sir, — Since publishing the notes on Severtzoff's 'Turkes- 

 tanskie Jevotnie,' in the January number of ' The Ibis,^ I have 

 had an opportunity of examining specimens of the bird re- 

 ferred to by Severtzoff under the name of Carduelis orientalis, 

 Eversm. Mr. Gould possesses examples from Turkestan, sent 

 to him by the Russian collectors, labelled C. orientalis ; and 

 on comparing these with examples of Carduelis caniceps, Vig., 

 also in Mr. Gould's collection, I can detect no specific dif- 

 ference : therefore the name orientalis, Eversm., will sink 

 into a synonym of Carduelis caniceps. 



Yours &c., 



H. E. Dresser. 



6 Tenterden Street, W. 

 June 4th, 1875. 



Sir, — I have lately made a small collection of birds in Sind, 

 the greater portion being from the hill-ranges on the western 



