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Zurich on their annual migrations ; among the rarer visitants 

 being examples of Fuligula rufina, Fuligula nyroca, and 

 Hydrochelidon leucoptera. The series of Cyanecula wolfi 

 struck me as particularly good. It included one adult male 

 with a perfectly blue, unspotted gorget. Mr. Nageli was 

 good enough to supply me with a nestling of Accentor 

 collaris for the Carlisle Museum. 



Yours &c., 

 Carlisle, Jan. 22nd, 1895. H. A. MacphersON. 



Sirs, — I see in your October number of ' The Ibis ' a 

 note, p. 557, as to a statement by Mr. Hartert as to the 

 way birds of prey carry their legs. 



I can thoroughly endorse his statement that Milvus govinda 



carries its legs stretched out behind it with the claws closed. 



The Kites here do just the same. I have particularly 



noticed them since reading your note, and they invariably 



carry their legs in that position. 



Yours &c., 



W. Wilfrid Cordeaux, 

 Queen's Bays. 

 [P.S. — In future my address will be : — 



21st Hussars, 

 Cairo, 23rd January, 1895. Secunderabad, India.] 



Sirs, — From the last volume of 'The Ibis ' I see that two 

 British collectors, Messrs. A. C. and A. Chapman, have 

 been visiting our shores in the summer of 1893. Without 

 any regard to the laws, in the close-time, they have been 

 shooting birds and collecting eggs, not only of our common 

 species, but especially of the I'arest, such as the Avocet, the 

 Black-tailed Godwit, &c., which are still lingering only in 

 a few places. Rumours of similar visits by Englishmen in 

 former years have reached me. May not public opinion be 

 aroused in England against such proceedings towards their 

 neighbour-country? In the name of European ornithology 

 wo appeal to you to help us in preserving some of the few 



