308 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, i§c. 



cies of British birds whose eggs have been discovered since the 

 3rd edition of Hewitson was pubhshed ; and these were stated 

 to be at least eight in number, in ' The Ibis ' for October 1859. 



List of Birds occurring in the ' 

 in Hewitson' s Srd edition, or 



1. Greenland Falcon. 



2. Rufous Sedge Warbler. 



3. Bohemian Waxwing. 



4. American Cuckoo. 



5. Belted Kingfisher. 



6. Purple Martin. 



7. Passenger Pigeon. 



8. Sand Grouse. 



9. Barbar\' Partridge. 



10. Cream-coloured Courser. 



11. Andalusian Hemipode. 



12. Little Egret. 



13. Buff-backed Heron. 



14. Squacco Heron. 



15. American Bittern. 



16. Yellow-shanks Sandpiper. 

 1 7. Bartram's Sandpiper. 



18. Sabine's Snipe. 



19. North American Stint. 



20. Mate Swan. 



21. Polish Swan. 



22. Bimaculated Duck. 



23. Surf Scoter. 



Zoologist ' List, but not mentioned 

 The Ibis ' List of Desiderata. 



24. Red-crested Duck. 



25. Paget's Pochard. 



26. Smew. 



27. Hooded Merganser. 



28. Ringed Guillemot. 



29. Swift Tern. 



30. Sooty Tern. 



31. White-winged Black Tern. 



32. Masked Gull. 



33. Laughing Gull. 



34. Dusky Shearwater. 



Mr. Yarrell. 



35. American Mottled Owl. 



36. Red-winged Starhng. 



37. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 



38. Virginian Quail. 



39. American Scaup. 



In ' Ibis.' 



40. Serine Finch. 



41. American Meadow Starling. 



Now, Sir, if you, or any of your valued conti'ibutors, will 

 inform me, in the next Number of * The Ibis,^ or in any other 

 way, how many of the forty-one species enumerated above ought 

 to be considered British, and at the same time how many of the 

 forty-one species have had their eggs discovered since the 3rd 

 edition of Hewitson was published, I shall feel greatly obliged. 



I may add, in conclusion, that I think * The Ibis ' List of 

 Desiderata is capable of a little legitimate enlargement. Take, 

 for instance, Sabine's Snipe, which certainly, as I believe, has 

 undoubted claims to rank as a British bird, and, so far as I 

 know, the egg of which has not yet been obtained. Neverthe- 

 less this bird, which " does not seem to have fallen into the hands 



