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islands — Pinnacle, Craig, and Agincourt." Craig Island was 

 covered with birds, and he found two Chinese egg-gatherers 

 there. The birds noticed were : — " Wideawakes," probably 

 Sterna fuliginosa, a species I have noticed about the Pescadores, 

 but never on the China coast. These were breeding : — Another 

 species of Tern, somewhat larger in size, and of a blue-grey and 

 white colour, S. velox, a species which breeds regularly on Ke- 

 lung Island; *' besides these there was a Sooty Petrel" — surely 

 my recent discovery, Thalassidroma monorhis (Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 386) ? for which it is interesting to find a locality ; Passer 

 montanus, the only land-bird ; a few Gannets, Sala fusca ; and 

 " on the rocks by the shore, a number of dove-coloured birds 

 with white foreheads." These I cannot identify ; and it is to be 

 regretted that the author did not succeed in getting a specimen. 

 The white eggs he procured most likely belonged to the 

 Petrel above named. The notes on the nidification of the birds 

 on Craig Island are well worth reading, and I would recommend 

 their perusal in the work itself. 



I have been moving from place to place so much during the 

 past year, that I have not had time to put my notes into the 

 form of a paper. I hope to make up for lost time when I re- 

 turn to England. Since I have been here I have obtained a 

 second species of Turnix. It is smaller than T. rostrata, and is 

 ill many localities thereabouts much commoner. I have also 

 procured a male Cuturnix sinensis, a bird hitherto only known 

 to inhabit Formosa from the discovery of its eggs. 



I am, &c., 



Robert Swinhoe. 



Sir, — In your second notice of Mr. Diggles's work (Ibis, 

 1868, p. 318), with reference to Casuariusjvhnsoni, you say that 

 the author " fails to show in what way " it " differs from C. au- 

 stralis." As I have described the bird which Mr. Randall John- 

 son presented to the Australian Museum, and as Mr. Diggles 

 figures it from photographs taken by me, I consider it my duty 

 to explain to you why I thought myself justified in giving it any 

 name I chose. That a species of Cassowary existed in the north 



