800 Letleis, Extracts, and Notes. 



Bird Notes, (New Series, Vol. vi. Nos. 7-9. Ashbourne, 1915.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. ix. Nos. 1-5. London, 1915.) 

 California Pish and Game. (Vol. i. No. 4. San Francisco, 1915.) 

 Canada, Geological Survey. L)ept. of Mines. Summary Report for 



1914. (Ottawa, 1915.) 

 The Condor. (Vol. xvii. No. 4. Hollywood, Cal., 1915.) 

 The Emu. (Vol. xv. pt. 1. Melbourne, 1915.) 

 Field Museum Nat. Hist. Ann, Report of the Director for 1914, 



(Chicago, 1915.) 

 The Irish Naturalist. (Vol. xxiv. Nos. 7-9. Dublin, 1915.) 

 The Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 43-45. Edinburgh, 1915.) 

 The South Australian Ornithologist. (Vol. ii. pt. 3. Adelaide, 1915.) 

 South Australia Dept, Agriculture. Paraheld Egg-laying Competition. 



Final Report. (Adelaide, 1915.) 



XLI. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 

 To THE Editor of ' The Ibis.' 



Sir,— Ta the last 'Ibis' (pp. 637-8) is a letter from 

 Mr. R. Etheridge, Junr., in regard to Messrs. Cockerell 

 and Thorpe ; in this he suggests that my remarks regarding 

 these collectors libelled Thorpe^ who was personally known 

 to Mr, Etheridge, though of Cockerell Mr. Etheridge does 

 not offer any defence, I am quite willing, at Mr, Ethe- 

 ridge's wish, to absolve Mr. Thorpe from complication in 

 the dishonest practices of which I accused Messrs. Cockerell 

 and Thorpe, and it is then open for some friend of 

 Mr, Cockerell to take up the cudgels on his behalf. The fact 

 is, however, that the collection in question was purchased as 

 made by " Messrs, Cockerell and Thorpe,'^ and under these 

 circumstances I can only allude to this collection under their 

 joint names and am unable to fix the blame for the decep- 

 tion practised. It is quite pleasing to read Mr. Etheridge's 

 defence, and personally I accept his vindication of Mr. 

 Thorpe, but my remarks were only such as were demanded 

 by the facts, which are not altered by Mr. Etheridge's 

 protest. In the collection were many true Cape York 



