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Botte. But I recorded this bird as being found in that 

 locality in a paper published in the ' Victorian Naturalist' 

 for March and April 1897. 



Yours &c., 



D. Le Souef. 

 Melbourne, August IGtli, 1900. 



Sirs, — I have to record the capture o£ the rare Snipe- 

 billed Godwit, Macrorhamphus TaczanowsJcU, in August 

 last, near the mouth of the Trusan River, Sarawak. 

 The solitary specimen secured was an adult female, still 

 showing traces of the summer plumage in the rufous colora- 

 tion of the breast, a few of the feathers of the neck and 

 back being also tipped with the same colour. The late 

 Mr. A. H. Everett records the species in his List of the 

 Birds of Borneo (Journ. Straits Br. Asiat. Soc. 1889, p. 209), 

 giving Pontianak as the locality and Diard as his authority. 

 The Sarawak Museum also possesses a specimen of an adult 

 male in the typical winter dress, shot at Buntal, Sarawak 

 Biver, in November 1892 ; but these seem to be the only 

 notices of the occurrence of the species so far to the 

 south-east. 



Another visitant to our shores may be noted, to wit the 

 Tufted Duck [Fuliyula cristata), a male example of which 

 was shot in December last in Kuching. This record very 

 considerably extends the southern range of the species. It 

 is perhaps noteworthy that the Anatidse, though common 

 enough during the N.E. monsoon at the northern end of 

 Borneo, are extremely rare in the south-western end, which 

 seems to be rather out of their line of migration. 



Yours &c., 



R. Shelford, 



Curator, Sarawak Mus. 

 Sarawak Museum, Sai'awak, 

 Sept. 21st, 1900. 



Sirs, — In revising the account of the Shrikes prepared by 

 the late Dr. Stark for the second volume of the 'Birds of 

 South Africa/ I found, to my surprise, that the Grey-headed 



