474 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



X. 1899, Heft 2] records the fact of small fliglits of 

 '' Steppenhiihner " having been repeatedly met with in the 

 district of Bruck, a. d. L., and one also killed in Rohrau, 

 Lower Austria-Hungary, about the end of July in 1898. 



Yours &c., 



John Cordeaux. 



Great Cotes House, R. S. O., Lincoln, 

 May 9th, 1899. 



Sirs, — In your notice of Mr. Hett's ' Dictionary of Bird 

 Notes' ('Ibis,' 1899, p. 136) you say that you never before 

 heard of a " murmuration " of Starlings. The term is 

 given (with many others) by Daniel, who writes : '' There 

 was a peculiar kind of Language invented by Sportsmen o£ 

 the middle Ages, which it was necessary for them to be 

 acquainted with ; and some of the Terms are still con- 

 tinued." (' Rural Sports,' vol. iii. p. 314.) 



Yours &c., 

 Bloxham, Oxon, r\ y AprT^r 



May 17th, 1899. * ^^^'^• 



Sirs, — I have to-day received the April number of ' The 

 Ibis,' and read therein Mr. Blanford's letter. I can assure 

 you that no one was more astonished than myself to find 

 that I had casually come across forty " Swans " in the 

 month of April last year. I allow that I made a great 

 mistake in not writing either '' Crane " or Grus antigone 

 after the word Sarus. 



Mr. Blanford is quite correct when he says that I over- 

 looked the Tern-names on p. 306 of his work. I did so, for 

 the very good reason that I never expected to find them 

 there, but under their separate species as usual. ' Jerdon ' 

 I had not by me at the time. " Pancheera " I knew had 

 been reported before. I only put it in to emphasize the 

 fact that the word " Titri/' or " Tihari," or " Tehari," did 

 not apply to them. As a matter of . fact, "Pancheera" is 

 used indiscriminately by the boatmen for all the Terns. 

 It may interest those who have read my previous account 



