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the unadvisability of adding to the already overhurdcued 

 synonymy of Lanius fultac. 



8. PVCNON'OTUS REKHKNOWI (oj). cit. p. 241). 



iSIessrs. Loreuz and Hellmayr, in their anxiety to make 

 new species^ seem to have overlooked the fact tjjat P. mm- 

 tliopyyus was originally described from Arabia. As a matter 

 of fact, examples from S. Arabia^ of which we have many^ 

 are perfectly similar to specimens from Somaliland and other 

 parts of N.E. Africa. 



9. CoLUMBA LIVIA SCHIMPERI (op. cit. p. 244). 



It is extremely doubtful whether C. scJuinperi is really 

 separable from C. iulerniedia. Many Indian examples de- 

 termined by Count Salvadori as C. interiitedia are, in my 

 opinion, indistinguishable from typical C. scltiniperi. 



Yours &c., 



W. K. 0(iILVIi: ( I KANT. 



Hiiti«h Museum (Natural History), 

 May 3rd, 1001. 



lite Llbranj of tlie late Mr. Philip Crowley. — Tiie sale of 

 the liibrary of our late friend and associate took place at 

 Mr. J. C, Stevens's Rooms at King Street, Coven t (rarden, 

 on the 15th of April last. The chief '' bird-books " were 

 sold at the following prices : — 



Blaauw's 'Monograph of the Cranes,' Jii^) \i)s.; Booth's 

 ' Rough Notes ou British Birds,' '6 vols., £25 -is. ; Buller's 

 • Birds of New Zealand,' 2nd edition, 2 vols., M,Q 7s. 6(1. ; 

 ' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum/ 27 vols., 

 £48; Dresser's 'Birds of Europe/ 9 vols., £56; Dresser's 

 ' Monograph of the Bee-eateis/ £4 4*. ; Elliot's ' Monograph 

 of the Grouse,' £0 ; Elliot's ' Monograph of the Ant- 

 Thrushes,' £4 10s. ; Elliot's ' Birds of N. America,' £9 ; 

 Elliot's ' Monograph of the llorubills,' £7 ; Elliot's ' Mono- 

 graph of the Birds of Paradise,' £6 ; Elliot's ' Monograph of 

 the Pheasants/ 2 vols., £513 \\s. ; Could's 'Birds of Asia,' 

 7 vols., £51; Gould's 'Monograph of the Toucans,' £6; 

 Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea,' 5 vols., £45; Gould's 

 ' Centujy of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains,' £5 lOs. ; 



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