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and was bui'ied in the chancel of St. Olave's Churchy Hart 

 Street, where may be seen a monument erected to his 

 memory by his widow. 



Yours &c., 



W. RUSKIN BUTTEIIFIELD, 



St. Leonard's-on-Sea, 



September 6th, 1898. 



Sirs, — May I point out that in the footnote to La Touche's 

 paper on North-Formosa birds (* Ibis/ 1898, p. 356), you 

 say of " Botel Tobago ^^ ''it appears to be what is called 

 in Johnston's Royal Atlas ' Bashee Island ' '' ? This is an 

 error: Bashee Island is about 100 miles south of Botel 

 Tobago. They are divided by the Bashee Channel, which I 

 believe is deep Avater. 



Next week I shall send off three collectors up the coast 

 to Funing, and thence to Pucheng, in the extreme north of 

 this province ; from that place they will strike across to the 

 mountains north of Kuatun, and return by the river. It will 

 be a two-and-a-half months' business. In December I hope 

 to go to Ching Feng again. In the spring I expect to 

 send my men away for a long expedition, viz. down the 

 coast to Swatow, thence by the " Han " River to Ting 

 Chow, and back by one of the south-westerly branches of 

 the " Min." When this is done I think we shall have a 

 very fair idea of the avifauna of Fohkien. 



Yours &c., 



C. B. BlCKETT. 



Too Chow, 



September 15th, 1898. 



Sirs, — It may interest our brethren of the B. O. U. to 

 learn that a specimen of Anthus richardi was winged on 

 Edderside Moss, near Allonby, on Oct. 10th, by Mr. Tom 

 Williamson, who took it alive to his uncles, Messrs, Mann 

 of Aigle Gill. I identified the specimen on the following 

 day, when it appeared to be doing well ; bnt it died from its 

 gunshot-wound three days later. No other specimens of 

 this large Pipit wei-e seen until the 9th of November, when 



