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work is entirely in Russian, and abounds in errors of nomen- 

 clature, so that I cannot be quite certain. No better name 

 for the Persian Nightingale could well be selected than that 

 which commemorates the great poet of Shiraz. A still larger 

 form of Nightingale from Turkestan has been recently de- 

 scribed by Dr. Cabanis as L. golzii (Journ. f. Ornith, 1873, 

 p. 79). 



13. Saodcola kingi, Hume, is apparently identical with S. 

 CHRYsoPYGiA, Dc Filippi. 



14. I agree with Mr. Hume in considering Lanius arena- 

 rius, Blyth, the same as L. isabellinus, H. & E. 



15. Emberiza cerrutii, De Filippi (1865, Viaggio in Persia, 

 p. 13, note) is E. huttoni, Blyth (1849). E. shah (Bon. 

 Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 465), to which Gray, in his Hand-list, 

 refers E. cerrutii, appears to me to be the Persian form of E. 

 hortulana. 



16. The pale Eagle Owl from Kiilu, noticed by Mr. Hume 

 in ' Stray Feathers ' (vol. i. p. 315), and for which, if con- 

 sidered distinct, he proposes the name of Bubo hemachalana, 

 is very probably the same as B. sibiricus, Eversmann, figured 

 in Gray's ' Genera of Birds ' (pi. xiii.) under the name of B. 

 cinereus. It may probably be separable as a distinct race from 

 B. maximus, and appears to have a wide range in Asia. I 

 have a specimen shot by Major St. John near Shiraz, in 

 Persia. Its occurrence in the Himalayas is mentioned by 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 99, and again in the Appendix to Jer- 

 don's 'Birds of India' (vol. ii. p. 870). 



VII. — Remarks on the Birds of Juan Fernandez and Mas-a- 

 fuera. By Edwyn C. Reed, of the National Museum of 



Santiago. 

 I HAVE just read an interesting article by Mr. Sclater in ' The 

 Ibis' for 1871, on the land-birds of Juan Fernandez and 

 Masa-a-fuera, and wish to make a few observations upon it. 



These islands, of volcanic origin, are situated, the former 

 380, and the latter 450 miles from the coast of Chili. 



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