Letters, Announcefnents, ^c. 129 



that this bird is the Anthus gtistavi of Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 90) . Mr. Swinhoe has kindly furnished me with three skins 

 of his bird^ obtained on the 31st of May^ 1873^ in North China 

 (see Ibis^ 1874, p. 442), suggesting that I should compare them 

 with my Petchora skin. They agree in the rich and varied 

 colouring of the upper parts, in the large stout bill, in the 

 arrangement of the primaries, in the elongated hind claw, 

 and in the lighter portion of the rectrices being dark smoky 

 buff. This Pipit apparently breeds in the arctic regions of 

 the Petchora, the Ob, and probably as far east as the Zena, 

 as Swinhoe mentions (Ibis, loc. cit.) an example from Lake 

 Baical. It passes through North and South China on mi- 

 gration, and should be looked for in winter in the Philippine 

 Islands and the Malay archipelago. 



Yours truly, 



Henry Seebohm. 



Sheffield, 24tli Dec. 1876. 



P.S. I may add that Mr. Dresser has compared one of the 

 Amoy skins with his specimen of the Petchora bird, and agrees 

 with me in the identity of the two species. 



The Ornithological Museum of Signor E. Turati. — The col- 

 lection of birds belonging to Count Ercole Turati of Milan 

 is now one of the largest and best-arranged private collections 

 in Europe. It contains upwards of 14,600 specimens, be- 

 longing to about 6300 species, all excellently mounted and 

 in good order. These are arranged in several rooms in the 

 Casa Turati, in the Via Maraviglie, at Milan. Amongst the 

 collections now merged in the Turatian Museum may be men- 

 tioned the Woodpeckers of Malherbe, the Paradise-birds of 

 Elliot, the Humming-birds of Verreaux, and the Eggs of Des 

 Murs. There are many rare and typical specimens, amongst 

 which we may mention, as observed during a recent visit, 

 Nestor productus, Trichoglossus ivilhelmince and T. josephinoi, 

 Iridomis jelskii, Pipra heterocerca, Meropogon breweri, Ser- 

 resius galeatus, and Crossoptilon drouyra. The unique spe- 

 cimen of Syncecus lodoisicB, Verreaux, of which phenomenon 



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