Letters, Announcements, ^c. 197 



By Geo. N. Lawrence. From the Annals of the Lyceum of 

 Natural History of New York, vol. x. p. 1 (Feb. 1871). 



" Descriptions of three new Species of American Birds, with a 

 note on Eugenes spectabilis." By the same. Ibid. p. 137 (Nov. 



1871). 



" Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the Families Tro- 

 glodytidse and Tyrannidse.''' By the same. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1871, 

 p. 233 (Dec). 



" Notes on some Birds in the Museum of Vassar College." 

 By Professor James Orton. Am. Nat. iv. No. 12, Feb. 1871. 



"Bullock's Oriole." By Elliott Coues. Am. Nat. v. Nov. 

 1871. 



'Archives of Science and Transactions of the Orleans County 

 Society/ vol. i. nos. 1-3, Oct. 1870 to April 1871. 



The latter contains the commencement of a " Catalogue of 

 and Observations on the Birds of Vermont." By the Rev. 

 Daniel Goodhue. 



"Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts." 



"Zur Ornithologie Nordwest-xAmerika^s." Von Dr.O.FiNSCH. 

 Abh. des naturwiss. Vereins zu bremen, Bd. iii. Jan. 1872. 



We have received the following letters addressed to " The 



XXV. — Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



•eceived the 



Editorof 'The Ibis'":— 



Eajkoti, Kattywar. 

 Sir, — I venture to write you a few lines on a subject which 

 has caused me much perplexity. I have always been under the 

 impression that Cijornis banyumas and C. tickellia were two dis- 

 tinct species, the latter, according to Jerdon, being only found in 

 Central India. Some two years ago, when visiting the southern 

 districts of this Province, I was somewhat surprised to find 

 C. banyumas and C. tickellia in equal numbers and both very 

 common. Since then I have constantly met with both species 

 wherever the country was fairly wooded, and have frequently 

 shot them off the same tree and within a few minutes of each 



