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Age together with the bones of a young person, and surmises 

 that they were placed there to carry the soul of the departed 

 to the "unknown land." He also gives particulars of the 

 bones of other species of birds found along with human 

 remains from the Bronze Age. 



31. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1903. 



[Fuglene red de danske Fyr i 190."!. Vidensk. Meddel. f'r. d. naturli. 

 Foren. i Kbhvn. 1904, p. 319."] 



The twenty-first of these excellent reports relates to the 

 birds obtained at the Danish Lighthouses in 1903, and 

 transmitted to the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. 

 They were 1138 in number, and are referred to 67 species; 

 they were received from 35 stations, which are carefully 

 enumerated and plainly shown on the accompanying map. 

 The usual notes are given. The most numerous species in 

 the List are Alauda arvensis (256 ex.), Erithacus rubecula 

 (183 ex.), Tardus musicus (73 ex.), and Sturnus vulgaris 

 (99 ex.). Of Regulus cristatus 33 examples were obtained. 



XL — Letters, Extracts, and Notices. 



We have received the following letters addressed to " The 

 Editors of < The Ibis ' " :— 



Sirs, — Mr. Harvie-Brown, in his letter to you of Sept. 1st, 

 1904 (' Ibis/ 1904, p. 664), criticises my article on nomen- 

 clature in connection with Barn-Owls (Bull. B. O. C. xiv. 

 p. 87). I am always willing to accept every criticism so 

 long as I am allowed to defend my own standpoint in return. 

 I therefore venture to ask you to receive this reply to 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown. 



I would first wish to point out that Zoological Nomen- 

 clature does not stand alone in the world in promoting 

 strife on all points of doubt or innovation. From the 

 earliest historical period every innovation in Philosophy, 

 Physics, Mechanics, Astronomy, Locomotion, Medicine, 

 Surgery, in fact in every branch of human intellectual or 



