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It is certainly to be regretted that the above-named Insti- 

 tute does not employ ifs own ornithologist, in order to 

 preserve from decay this valuable collection and to supplement 

 it where necessary. 



Of skins there are but a limited number. A separate 

 collection of Bavarian birds, unfortunately, does not exist 

 in our Museum; but such a collection, of rare completeness 

 and of great interest, is to be found in the Museum of the 

 " Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein fiir Schwaben und Neu- 

 berg '' at Augsburg. In the Museum at Munich I should, 

 however, mention a not unimportant series of varieties 

 of colour and of hybrids, which occupies a separate case. 



Mr. Sclater saw at both Stuttgart and at Frankfort a 

 specimen of AIca impennis. Munich possesses two more. 

 One of the birds, marked "Island, 1833,'^ formed part of 

 the late Duke of Leuclitenberg's collection. The other is 

 labelled " Eismeer, 1836.'' 



Yours &c., 



Miinclien, Klenzestrasse, C. Parrot, M.D. 



Sept. 14, 1804. 



Sirs, — Referring to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's description of a 

 new species of Guinea-fowl in ' The Ibis ' for October, I find 

 that 1 have possessed for two years a fragmentary specimen 

 of the new Numida reichenowi, sent me by Mr. C. F. Smith 

 from Mengo, Uganda. I took it to the British Museum, 

 along with my fragments of Pternistes rufopictus, but neither 

 Mr. Grant nor I then noted the marked peculiarities of 

 the species. My fragment consists only of head, neck, 

 shoulders, and breast. 



Yours &c., 



October n, 1894. H. B. Tristram. 



Sirs, — I have been much interested in your summary of 

 the present state of our knowledge of the Birds of Antarctica. 

 May I add a note as a small contribution ? I possess two 

 skins, one of Pagodroma nivea and one of Chionis alba, given 

 me by my venerable friend, the late Dr. W. Gunn, R.N. 

 who was surgeon of H.M.S. 'Terror 'in the Antarctic Ex- 



