Letters, Extracts, Notices, S^'c. 217 



This is a series of field-notes ou the birds of Natal 

 and Zululand, some of which have already appeared in the 

 columns of this Journal (see Ibis, 1897, pp. 400, 495 ; 1898, 

 p. 216). They contain many interesting particulars on the 

 habits of the feathered creatures of this district, in which 

 the writers have had a long and varied experience. 



The figure of Stactohema woodwardi (Ibis, 1897, pi. x.j is 

 repeated in this volume. 



XII. — Letters, Extracts, Not ires, b^c. 



We have received the following letters, addressed " to the 

 Editors of ' The Ibis'" :— 



Sirs, — I have just received my copy of the last nviraber of 

 ' The Ibis,' and I ask you to rectify the notice on the habitat 

 of Gisella jheringi Sharpe. The example sent by me to the 

 British Museum was not from S. Paulo, but was obtained by 

 Mr. Clir. Euler in the colony of S. Lourenyo, Rio Grande 

 do Sul. The second example, from S. Paulo, is in our 

 Museum, stuffed. The description of it agrees with that of 

 Dr. Sharpe, but I am not informed by the British Museum 

 Catalogue as to the tail of G. harrisi. Our example has the 

 last or subterrainal of the three caudal bars buff, and the 

 white spots of the upper tail-coverts confluent into bars. 

 Its measurements are 139 mm, of the wing, 77 mm. of the 

 tail. 



Yours &c., 

 S. Paulo, H. VON Jherino. 



August 12th, 1899. 



Sirs, — I am sorry to say that the native "shooting-men '* 

 have at last found out that there is a silver-mine in the 

 " plume trade," with the result that one of the greatest 

 ornaments of our landscapes is aj)parently doomed to 

 destruction. 



It was a pretty sight in the spring to see a stretch of 

 paddy-fields with the brilliant green of the young rice 



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