236 Leitcrs, AiDwuncemtnts, 6;c. 



pour but de former comme des reservoirs d'air destines k 

 diminuer la frequence des inspirations lorsque I'oiseau plonge 

 ou lorsqu'il vole. 



On trouve assez communement sur la plage d'Hendaye 

 une Corneille qui differe autant du Corvus corone que beau- 

 coup d^autres oiseaux different de leur similaires dont ils ont 

 ete distingues specifiquement. Cette Corneille offre une 

 taille plus petite, ce qui se remarque au premier coup d'oeil. 

 Les poils des narines ne s'avancent jusqu\a la moitie du bee, 

 tandis quails sont plus courts chez le C. corone. 



La faune ornithologique des Basses-Pyrenees pent encore 

 s'enricber du Lams affinis, Eeinbardt, dont trois exemplaires 

 ont ete recueillis a Hendaye. Le Larus leucophoius etait tres 

 commun Fannee derniere, mais il ne paraitpas I'etre presente 

 vers la fin de 1884 ni au commencement de 1885. 



Recevez, Messieurs, I'assurance de maparfaite consideration. 



Leon Olphe-Galliard. 



Gift of the Salvin-Godma7i Collection to the British Mu- 

 seum. — As has been recorded in tlic ' Times ' o£ March 6th, 

 Messrs. Salvin and Godman have given to the nation their 

 unrivalled collection of American birds, containing upwards 

 of 20,000 specimens. These will be transferred from their 

 present situation in Chandos Street to the Museum of 

 Natural History at South Kensington in groups, as the 

 various families treated of in the ' Biologia Centrali-Ame- 

 ricana' are finished. There is, we believe, a stijoulation in 

 the terras of gift that any specimen required by the donors 

 may be removed on loan from the Museum during the life- 

 times of the donors or the survivor of them. 



The Hume Collection of Indian Birds. — Another very im- 

 portant addition which the National Museum of Natural 

 History is likely to receive shortly is Mr. A. O. Hume's col- 

 lection of Lidian birds, consisting, it is said, of an enormous 

 series of some 60,000 specimens. As many of our readers 

 are already aware, negotiations have been for some time in 



