Letters, Announcements, l^c. 385 



fied by Prof. Baird according to the system prevailing in tlie 

 United States^ the locality of each specimen being given. 

 None of the species appears to call for any special comment ; 

 but the list adds to our knowledge of the distribution of North- 

 American birds, a subject which our Transatlantic brethren 

 have long laboured at with great industry and success. 



51. Major Godvnn- Austen's List of Birds from the Hills of 

 the North-east Frontier of India. 



[Fifth List of Birds from the Hill Ranges of the North-east Frontier 

 of India. By Major H. 11. Godwin-Austen, F.R.G.S. &c. (J. A. S. B. 

 xlv. pt. 2, p. 191.)] 



A list of the birds collected by officers of the Topographi- 

 cal Survey of India in the Munipur and Naga hills, and by 

 Major Godwin-Austen himself in the Khasi hills, is given in 

 this paper, which adds another to the useful series of memoirs 

 Major Godwin- Austen has published on the birds of these 

 remote districts. Most of the new species obtained during 

 these expeditions have already been described in this Journal 

 (Ibis, 1875, p. 250 et seqq.) and elsewhere ; but others are 

 characterized in this article. Thus we have a new Alcippe 

 from the Naga hills allied to A. hueti of Pere David, and 

 called A. fusca, and Neornis albiventris, a new Warbler from 

 the Munipur valley, allied to N. assimilis, Hodgs. Three 

 species are figured (plates v., vi., vii.), viz. Acridotheres al- 

 bocincta, Sphenocichla roberti, and Pyctorhis altirostris. 



XXXIII. — Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



The following letters, addressed " To the Editors of ' The 

 Ibis,^ " have been received : — 



Sirs, — In 1875 the Asiatic Society of Bengal did me the 

 honoui" of intrusting to me the task of editing the post- 

 humous Catalogue of the Birds of Burma written by Mr. 

 Blyth. While in no degree underrating the responsibility of 

 the duty I was asked to perform, I accepted the trust with 

 some confidence, because Mr. Blyth, not very long before 



