414 Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, i^c. 



Length 7-^ inches; wing 4^ ; tail ly^^; tarse 1^. 



I think, on perusing the above, you will agree with me that 

 we have at last discovered the Pitta nympha — a species so long 

 established from a Japanese design, but one whose existence was 

 seriously questioned by practical ornithologists. And to think 

 that this Corean wonder should be first met with in the flesh in 

 this barren island of Amoy ! 



As you will probably give publicity to these notes, I will add 

 my remarks on dissecting its body : — 



Qjlsophagus about ^ in. wide, contracting before the proven- 

 triculus, which starts with a breadth of ^^ in., and gradually en- 

 larges as it joins the stomach. The proven triculus measures ^o^^- 

 and is S7woo//i-coated. The stomach is heart-shaped, with stout 

 lateral tendons, and broadly marked exteriorly with perpendicular 

 rings. The epithelium was bright yellow, moveable and rugose; 

 containing only the remains of one spotted field-bug. Intes- 

 tines ISg in. long, and varying in thickness from -~-q in. to y^ in., 

 marked exteriorly with a sprinkling of hard granules, and having 

 a large round nodule, g in. broad, about 4 inches from the anus. 

 This latter is probably the result of disease. Cseca yo i^i* loQgj 

 ovate and aduate, the right one being 1^ in., the left one l-p^ in. 

 from the anus. Ovary containing quite a bunch of small eggs. 



Yours, &c., 



Robert Swinhoe. 

 Dr. Schlegel, Leyden Museum. 



Mr. Tristram writes to us, that in looking over his collections 

 he finds that in his "Catalogue of the Birds of the Sahara,^^ 

 as given in the two preceding volumes of ' The Ibis/ he has 

 accidentally omitted two very interesting species : — 



1. Cyanecula ruhecula, of which he has two examples in winter 

 plumage, one a female, the other with the sex undetermined. 



2. Anthus spinoletta, of which he has one specimen, shot, 

 out of a small flock, in the marsh at the edge of the oasis of 

 Laghouat in November 1856. He believes also that he saw a 

 flock of this bird (if not of A. obscurus) in January 1857, in the 

 swamps near Tuggurt. 



Mr. Tristram also remarks, — 



" Had I to rewrite my notes on the Larks of the Sahara, I do 



