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and sold to the Zoological Gardens there. Through the 

 kindness of the directors of that institution tlie specimen, 

 which is still in excellent health and condition, came into 

 my possession two weeks ago, and is now living in one of 

 ray aviaries. 



The bird being in winter plumage, I am not quite sure 

 about the sex, but I suppose it is a male. This is the sixth 

 recorded occurrence of the Little Bunting in the Netherlands. 



Yours &c., 



F. E. Blaauw. 



Gooilust, 's Graveland, 

 February 3rd, 1899. 



Sirs, — At the suggestion of Dr. Blanford, made to me 

 some time back, I have examined the type of Euplocamus 

 audersoni of Elliot, contained in this museum, and have com- 

 pared it with the plate in Elliotts ' Pheasants.^ This specimen 

 is, I find, accurately delineated in the plate ; but it is to be 

 observed that in both original and portrait the white rump- 

 fringes, though visible, are not so conspicuous as to strongly 

 affect the coloration of that part of the plumage. Mr. Elliot's 

 second description, therefore, so far from being more accurate 

 than the first, as Mr. Oates, in his admirable little work on 

 the Game-Birds of India, reasonably supposes, is in this 

 respect somewhat misleading. 



Yours &c., 



Fraxk Finn. 



Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 February lltli, 1899. 



The Paradise-birds in the Dresden Museum. — In our 

 account of the great demonstration of Paradise-birds held at 

 Dresden on the occasion of the Meeting of the German 

 Ornithological Society at that city in May 1897, as given in 

 our last number (above, page 138), we regret that (on line 23) 

 the words '' Leyden Museum " were inadvertently given 

 instead of " Di'esden Museum. '' The latter, as Dr. Meyer 

 showed upon that occasion [cf. Abhandlungen zool. Mus. 

 zu Dresden, vol. vii. no. 3, p. 39), contains a remarkably 



