Letters, Extracts, and Notes* 5(5!) 



The bird was stated to be from Japan, but was sought for 

 iti vain by all subsequent collectors until 1904, when, as 

 announced in this journal*, it was rediscovered in one of 

 the islands of the Loochoo group by the collectors of 

 Mr. Alan Owston, of Yokohama. 



New Birds at the Zoological Society's Gardens. — In the 

 Report of the Council read at the Anniversary Meeting 

 of the Zoological Society on April 29th, it was stated 

 that living examples of the following twelve species new to the 

 Collection had been received during the year 1909 : — 

 Pomatorhinus erythragenys (from India), Crypsorhina varidns 

 (from Java), Hamatopus palliatus (from Jamaica), Ostinops 

 viridis (from Venezuela), Manucodia atra (from the Aru 

 Islands), Melanerpes superciliaris (from Cuba), Trachyphonus 

 cafer (from South Africa), Ens cyanogenis, Trichoglossus 

 nigrigularis, and Aprosmictus cyanopterus (from New Guinea), 

 Agapornis nigrigenis (from Rhodesia), and Speotyto hypogaa 

 (from Venezuela). 



Neiv lc British Birds.'' — In ' British Birds' for April last 

 three additions to our avifauna are announced — Locustella 

 lanceolata, Totanus stagnatilis, and Lanius senator badius. 

 Totanus stagnatilis is a well-known species on the Con- 

 tinent, but no certainly authenticated British specimen 

 existed in any collection. Lanius senator badius is a 

 mere sub-species of the Woodchat [Lanius pomeranus), 

 which, until lately, w T as believed to be found only in Corsica 

 and Sardinia. 



But Locustella lanceolata is quite a good species, nearly 

 allied to our Grasshopper Warbler (L. ncevia). It is remark- 

 able that when Seebohm wrote the fifth volume of the 

 'Catalogue of Birds' in 1881 there was not a single 

 example of this bird in the British Museum. Now, we 

 are glad to say, there are in the National Collection upwards 



* 'Ibis,' 1905, p. 288. 



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