Letters, Announcements, ^c. 325 



gutture coccineis : capite colloque supero usque ad dorsum 

 medium aureo-flavis : rostro rubro, pedibus flavis. Fern. 

 macula gutturali caret : long, tota 5-9, alse 3'8, caudse 3. 



Hab, ins. Zebu, Philippinarum. 



Obs. Affinis L. culacissi et L. regulo, sed pileo dorsoque aureo- 

 flavis distinctus. 



The Plate represents the pair of this beautiful species purchased 

 by the Zoological Society on the 24th of March, 1871, from a 

 sketch by Mr. Keulemans. 



XXXIX. — Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



We have received the following letters addressed to "The 

 Editor of 'The Ibis'":— 



Sir, — Would one of your readers kindly give a description of 



the egg of Eudynamis taitiensis, the long -tailed Cuckoo of 



the Pacific ? 



Thomas H. Potts. 



Ohinitahi, N. Z., Feb. 5, 1872. 



[In ' The Birds of New Zealand,' p. 76, Mr. Buller says, 

 " An egg, forwarded to me some years ago by the Rev. R. 

 Taylor, of Wanganui, as belonging to this species, is almost 

 spherical in shape, with a slightly rough or granulate surface. 

 It is of a pale buff or yellowish-brown colour, and measures 

 1-25 inch in length by I'lS in breadth. I ought to state, how- 

 ever, that it was obtained from a native, and that its authenticity 

 cannot be considered quite certain." — Ed.] 



Sir, — Whilst journeying in the dense bush which clothes the 

 western slopes of the middle island, making acquaintance with 

 the Kinei and Kakapo, the note of a bird was heard that was 

 new to us ; it was evidently that of a Genjgone, but differed much 

 from that of our familiar gully-haunting warbler. The habitat 

 was unusual, in the thick bush, between the bluff of Okarito and 

 Lake Mapourilla; whereas our little Riroriro delights in trilling 

 fi-om the shrubs on the creek side or more open country, or in 



