T) I C) Letters, Extracts, Notices, &;c. 



the same speeies is mentioned also from Urucura^ in Matlo 

 Grosso, anotlier new locality. 



Yours &c., 

 Turin, Zool. Mus., T. Salvadori. 



20th April, 1901. 



Sirs, — In the last issue of 'The Ibis^ (above, p. 355) 

 Mr. Abel Chapman says that sinee 1895 I have not afforded 

 '' any further information as to the Pelicans that visit the 

 Jutland coast," aud that he has looked in vain for any 

 evidence that I have "even tried to solve this interesting 

 question.'^ Mr. Chapman must have overlooked my note in 

 'The Ibis' for 1891), p. 0.58, and also my reply to Herr O. 

 Haase in the ' Ornithologische Monatsbericht ' for 1899, 

 p. 173. So I may be permitted novv to state again that 

 only negative evidence is accumulating, in spite of much 

 inquiry. In the spring of 1898 I revisited the spot, Ring- 

 kj0bing Fjord, that I had already visited in 1881 — this time 

 in company with Dr. Rambusch ; but no traces of Pelicans 

 were to be seen, nor could the birds be heard of. Dr. Ram- 

 busch has for seveial years been engaged in a study of the 

 history of Ringkj^bing Fjord, both natural and agricultural ; 

 he has visited it repeatedly, and has been in communica- 

 tion with a number of men knowing the Fjord exceedingly 

 well ; but although he is especially interested in birds, 

 he has not succeeded in getting any information as to 

 the Pelicans, as may be seen from his book ' Studies on 

 Ringkj^bing Fjord' (Copenhagen, 1900, 8vo) . Regarding 

 the occurrence o( Peiecanus crisjms in Jutland in the Stone- 

 age, a new work may be consulted : ' AfFaldsdynger fra 

 Stenalderen i Danmark ' (Copenhagen, 1900, 4to, pp. 110 

 & 185). 



I may venture to remind your readers that collecting on 

 the Royal domain of Ringkjc^bing Fjord is now prohibited, 

 the birds being strictly preserved (see note from the Danish 



Minister, 'Ibis,' 1898, p. 181). 



Yours kc, 



Liiiver.-^itets Zoul. :^Iiiscum. Herluf WlNGE. 



Kjf^benhavii. 



