Letiers, Extractft, and Notes. 3H7 



from Mr. Alan Owstoiij of Yokohama, t^Iio had received 

 them from his native collectors. It appears that the above- 

 mentioned bird had been snared on the nest. On May 21st, 

 1899, Mr. Owston's brother— Mr. Francis Owston — shot a 

 male White's Thrush on a nest containing two young birds 

 and an egg, but the egg was unfortunately broken by the 

 shot. The fragments of this shell, together with the nest- 

 lings (preserved in spirits), were sent to Mr. Hcatley Noble. 

 One of these young birds Mr. Noble has very generously 

 presented to the Natural History Museum, while the nest 

 referred to in my paper (above, p. 13.2) was also a gift from 

 that gentleman. 



With regard to the bibliography of Japanese birds, I 

 omitted to refer to the several pamphlets or annotated 

 " lists '' printed privately by Mr. Alan Owston in Yokohama. 

 Although they contain notes of the briefest description, 

 in consideration of the author's wide experience of Japanese 

 ornithology they are of very great interest, and, moreover, 

 unacknowledged quotations have frequently been made 

 from them. 



Yours &c., 



Tetbury, Glos., CoLLiNGWooD Ingram. 



February 27tb, 1908. 



The Hohart Museum^ Tasmania. — We are pleased to be 

 able to announce that Mr. Robert Hall, of Melbourne, who, 

 in 1903, made the enterprising ornithological journey to the 

 Lena described in this Journal ('Ibis,' 1904, p. 415), and is 

 well known to us by other writings, has been appointed 

 to succeed the late Mr. Alex. Morton as Curator of the 

 Hobart Museum, Tasmania. Mr. Hall writes to us that he 

 would take up his new post at Hobart on the 1st of January, 

 1908. 



The Naardermeer. — Mr. F. E. Blaauw has kindly sent us a 

 copy of the Eeport of the newly founded Dutch Society for 

 " the preservation of Nature's Monuments in the Nether- 

 lands' (see Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 38) From it we gather 

 that the acciuisitioii of the Naardermeer has been quite a 



