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Pelicans as seen, surron^ided }>y Gulls and Grey Geese, on 

 the Jutland coast, which 1 had prepared for my book ' Wild 

 Norway/ Yours &c., 



Abel Chapman. 



South Bmle_y, Durham, 

 December 15th, 1900. 



Sirs, — We beg leave to announce that for several years 

 past we have been working upon the ' Birds of Yorkshire,^ 

 and that we hope to be able to publish the results of our 

 investigations in book-form at an early date. 



OXLEY GrABHAM. 



,J. Backhouse. 



The Nurseries, York, 

 December 19th, 1900. 



(Signed) I 



Sirs, — In reading over Messrs. H. C. Robinson's and 

 W. S. Laverock's interesting account of some North Queens- 

 laud birds ('Ibis/ 1900, p. 632), I notice that they are 

 doubtful as to whether Cracticus quoyi is found in North- 

 east Australia or not. But I think that it has been proved 

 conclusively that this bird does exist there, as well as 

 C. rnfescens, for both Mr. C. Burnard and Mr. R. Hislop 

 have found black young in the nest, both at Cooktown 

 aud Somerset. The natives of that district assured me that 

 they had fn quently found the young black. From what I 

 have observed personally, I should say that C. quoyi is more 

 abundant in the northern portion of the coast districts of 

 Queensland, and that C. rufescens is the most plentiful in 

 the more central districts — near Cairns, for instance. The 

 young C. ryfescens probably change their brown plumage 

 for black when they are three years old, and are then very 

 difficult to tell from C. quoyi without careful comparison. 



Yours &c., 



D. Le Souef. 



Melbourne, December 19th, 1900. 



Sirs, — Tn a notice of the last part published of the ' Birds 

 of Africa' (abo\e, jt. 1 16), you remark : " ' Parifjomidpe. ' is 



