672 Letters, Extracts, Notices, i^-c. 



ill Austria, liuugary, and the Occupation-Territory of several 

 Falconidffi, Syrnium uralense, Nucifraga caryocatactes, Pastor 

 roseus, and various Grouse, Ducks, &c. 



131. Van Kernpen on Birds from the Pas-de-Calais. 



[Oiseaux dont la capture est rare on fortuite dans les Departemeiits du 

 Nord et du Pas-de-Oalais conserves dans la Collecliou Van Kempen, 

 a Salnt-Omer. Par Van Kempen. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxvii. 

 pp. 5^18] 



A list of species, with remarks on the places of capture, 

 and dates. Several Avhicli we should hardly consider rare 

 are included, and varieties of some are recorded. 



132. Zarudny and Harms on neiv Birds from Western Asia. 



[Neue Vogelarten. Von X. Zarudny und M. lliirnis. Ornithol. 

 Monatsb. 1902, pp. 49-54.] 



Messrs. Zarudny and Harms describe <S^co/j5 semenowi from 

 Persian Belooehistan and several subspecies — Neophron perc- 

 nopterus rubripersonatus from Southern Persia, Passer 

 ammodendri korejewi from Eastern Transcaspia, Otocorys 

 penicillata iranica from Northern Persia, and Parus communis 

 korejewi from Turkestan. The writers promise us a book on 

 the birds of Eastern Persia. 



XLIII. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



We have received the following letters addressed to " The 

 Editors '' :— 



Sirs, — In my article on Audouin's Gull {Larns audouini) 

 (above, p. 493) there is an error as regards the localities of 

 the specimens of that bird in the Museum of Florence, 

 which are stated to be " all from the island of Mai di 

 Ventre.'' It is the eggs only which were taken on that 

 island. The specimens are all from the open sea or islands 

 of the Mediterranean, except one, which was procured at 

 Piombino, near Leghorn, being the second example recorded 

 from the mainland of Italy. 



