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the B. O. U.^ he will find the name Cyanecula wolfi used for 

 the White-spotted Bluethroat. The same name has been 

 employed in Dresser's ' Birds of Europe/ Harting's ' Hand- 

 book/ and by many other writers, and is believed to be the 

 first name applicable to this form of the Bluethroat. We 

 regret that the name " leucocyanus " was left unaltered on 

 p. 491, and that the subspecific term '' purpurascens" was 

 omitted in the name of the Starling (p. 498). — Edd.] 



Sirs, — The egg figured by Mr. Dresser in ' The Ibis ' 

 (above, pi. x. fig. 3) difi'ers widely from those recently sent 

 to Europe from the Lob Noor by Herr W. Riichbeil, 

 together with skins of Rhopophilus albosuperciliaris. A 

 clutch of four eggs in my possession are not unlike those of 

 Sylvia curruca, being white, irregularly blotched and streaked 

 with light and darker ochreous brown, and with a few 

 underlying leaden-grey spots, chiefly at the big end. In 

 shape they are a short ovate and average (4 eggs) 14*87 X 

 12*52 mm. 



I am. Sirs, 



Yours &c., 

 Clifton Vicarage, F. C. R. JoURDAlN. 



Ashburne, Derbyshire. 



Sirs, — During the early part of June three Sand-Grouse 

 {Syrrhaptes paradoxus) were observed in a cornfield in the 

 eastern portion of Cleveland. A few days afterwards one 

 was picked up dead, and I have had an opportunity of 

 examining this specimen, which is a male in excellent 

 plumage. The other two birds were seen at intervals until 

 mid-June, when they both disappeared. 



I am, Sirs, 



Yours &c., 



Seafield, Eedcar, T. H. Nelson. 



Xst Aug., 1908. 



[For other recent occurrences of this bird in England, see 

 * British Birds," vol. ii, p. 98 ; and as to its appearance in 



