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Country. By Jos(5 C, Zeledou, of San Jos6, Costa lliea. Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1885, p. 104.] 



Mr. Zeledon, the well-known naturalist of San Jose, Costa 

 Rica, during a short residence at Washington, has revised 

 his former Catalogue of the birds of Costa Eica, published at 

 San Jose in 1882, and added the new species, the list now con- 

 taining the names of 692 species, arranged according to the 

 system emjjloyed in the United States National Museum. 



XLIV. — Letters, Announcements , S^c. 



We have received the following letter addressed to the 

 Editors of 'The Ibis :^ — 



TopclyiFe Grange, Farnljorougb, Kent, 

 July 24, 1885. 



Dear Sirs, — On the 4th November last the Rev. H. H. 

 Slater exhibited at the Zoological Society's Meeting a speci- 

 men of the Barred Warbler {Sylvia nisoria), shot by himself 

 on the Yorkshire coast on the 28tli August, 1884, and at the 

 same time I exhibited one shot by Mr. Power at Blakeney, 

 in Norfolk, on the 4th September, these being the second 

 and third recorded occurrences of this Warbler in Great 

 Britain. When exhibiting the above bird^ I mentioned that 

 Mr. Shaw, of Shrewsbury, had written to me to say that a 

 young Orphean Warbler shot at Broadford, Skye, had been 

 sent to him for preservation, and on my asking him to 

 send it to me for examination, as I thought it might pos- 

 sibly be a Barred Warbler, had replied that he was unable 

 to do so, but that he felt sure it was really an Orphean 

 Warbler. Subsequently I met Mr. Shaw in London, and 

 from his description of the bird I felt more and more con- 

 vinced that he was wrong in his identification, and he kindly 

 urged the owner of the bird, Mr. George Dunville Lees, of 

 Woodhill, Oswestry, to let me examine it. Mr. Lees brought 

 the bird to me, and I am now able to state positively that it 

 is an immature Barred Warbler, closely resembling the bird 

 exhibited by the Rev. H. H. Slater. Mr. Lees writes to me 



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