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''On May 21st, 1900, we were right down at the mouth 

 of the Tarm river, where it runs into the Ringkjobing fjord. 

 There is a small island about half a mile out in the fjord. I 

 waded to this island ; at low tide there is a sandbank left 

 dry on one side of it. I there saw a pair of Pelicans. In 

 my mind there is not a doubt about it, as I had field-glasses 

 with me, and got fairly elose to them before they flew off in 

 the direction of Tipperen. 



" I have drawn a rough map of the district, and marked 

 with a red cross the spot where I saw the Pelicans. No 

 doubt you will be able to make it out, as you were, I think, 

 all over this ground.^' 



The red cross on the map referred to is within half a 

 dozen miles of the spot Avhere my late brother and I saw 

 the Pelicans in May, 1893. I would add, for the informa- 

 tion of future visitors to West Jutland, that the Pelicans are 

 not to be looked for on dry land or fen, but exclusively on 

 the open salt-waters and tidal flats of the Ringkjobing fjord. 



Yours &c., 



Abel Chapman. 

 Houxty, Wark-ou-Tyiie, Northumberlaud, 

 Alio-. 18tb, 1901, 



Sale of Alphonse Milne-Edwards' s Library. — The following 

 are some of the prices realized by ornithological books at 

 the sale of the library of the late Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 

 whicli took place at Paris in May last. The produce of the 

 sale was given by the deceased^s will to the Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, to be employed in buying 

 additions to the Collections : — i\.udebert etVieillot^s ' Histoire 

 naturelle ct generale des Colibris,^ 2 vols., 200 fr. ; Badeker^s 

 ' Die Eier du europaischen Vogel,^ 130 fr. ; Bettoni-'s ' Storia 

 naturale degii uccelli die nidificano in Lombardia,' 2 vols., 

 205 fr. ; Bonaparte et Schlegel^s ' Monographic des Loxiens/ 

 62 fr. ; Buller's ' Birds of New Zealand,' 90 fr. ; ditto, ed. 2, 

 2 vols., 135 fr. ; ' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum/ 



