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Schmackerj since whose death it has become the property of 

 the Bremen Museum. On comparing this specimen, a very- 

 fine adult male, with the figure in the PI. Col. 337, there 

 cannot be the slightest doubt o£ their identity, the Hainan 

 bird corresponding in every respect with the figure of that 

 of Cochin China. A comparison of the two specimens them- 

 selves is not necessary {cf. Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p. 222). The 

 original label bears the inscription " Labowan, interior of 

 Hainan : iris magenta." 



In the ornithological system this bird should therefore 

 stand as Temnurus truncatus (Less.). 



I am, Sirs, 



Yours &c., 



G. Hartlaub. 



P.S. — It will also, perhaps, interest you to hear that the 

 type specimen of Arboricola ardens (figured in ' The Ibis,^ 

 1893, pi. xii.) is also now in the Bremen Museum. 



The Ibis Glacier. — Our brethren of the B.O.U. will surely 

 be pleased to learn that one of the finest glaciers on the 

 east coast of Novaya Zemlya has been named after this 

 Journal. CoL Feilden, in his most interesting account of his 

 visit to Barents and Kara Seas, lately published (Geogr. 

 Journ. xi. p. 334), writes as follows : — 



" The next day we proceeded up the fiord that runs into 

 the interior directly opposite Pachtussoff Island [cf. Pearson, 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 190]. We steamed up this noble indentation 

 for a distance of about 12 miles, until we got within a quarter 

 of a mile of the glacier at its end ; we sounded there, and 

 found 40 fathoms. The sea-ice had entirely cleared out of 

 the fiord, but over its blue surface were scattered huge 

 blocks of glacier-ice, and bergs of considerable size were 

 stranded at many points, Mr. Pearson and Mr. Curtis, on 

 landing, ascended the glacier from its flank and travelled a 

 long way over it, reaching an elevation of 650 feet. Down 

 its centre is a medial moraine in which occur perfectly 

 rounded water- worn stones. In company with one of the 

 crew, Daniel Johannssen, who generally attended me in my 



