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the price. Very often one living at such a distance from 

 London as I do has to write home for the price before 

 knowing whether the work in question will come within the 

 compass of his purse, thus wasting at least four months, 

 which would be saved if the pi ices of books were appended to 

 the notices. I may say that Colonial booksellers do not 

 import technical books, for which there is a small sale, unless 

 specially ordered. 



Trusting you will forgive me for troubling you with this 

 suggestion. 



Yours &c., 



George Hurst, M.B. 

 Bathiirst, N.S.W., 



29tli .Tamiary, 1900. 



[We liave received other communications to the same 

 effect, and when the new series commences it is probable 

 that the Editors will endeavour to meet the wishes thus 

 expressed. But it must be recollected that the separate 

 copies which abound in ornithological literature are not 

 usually on sale, and cannot be priced. — Edd.] 



Sirs,— On May 11th, 1900, Mr. George Bristow of this 

 town asked me to examine a small Warbler which had been 

 shot the day before and sent to him, along with some other 

 small birds, from Ninfield, Sussex. On handling this bird 

 " in the flesh,'' I at once suspected it to be the Melodious 

 Warbler, Rypolais pohjglotta (Vieill.), and shortly afterwards, 

 on taking Mr. Ernst Hartert to view the specimen, he agreed 

 with me in referring it to that species. Mr. Hartert was 

 able to match it with examples of H, polyglotta from the 

 south of France. More recently, Mr. Howard Saunders 

 has examined the bird, and writes that he is quite satisfied 

 that it has been rightly identified. It proved on dissection 

 to be a male. 



The present is the second record of the undoubted occur- 

 rence of H. liolyglotta in the British Islands. Some remarks 

 upon the range and distinctive features of the species will be 

 found in ^The Ibis,' 1897, pp. 627, 6.28. 



