658 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^'C. 



SiRS; — The reference on p. 457 of the July number of ' The 

 Ibis^ to Dr. Girtanner's paper on the Bearded Vulture 

 {Gypaetus barbatus) has induced me to record having seen one 

 of these birds near Finhaut, in Canton Valais^ Switzerland, 

 on 13th October, 1898. 



Snow had fallen in the preceding night, and the mountains 

 were w^hite above 5000 feet. As I climbed through the 

 woods, at about that height, one of these grand birds came 

 towards me, sailing over the tree-tops, and passed directly 

 above my head, quite near me. Round and round it wheeled, 

 in great circles, sometimes disappearing behind the trees, 

 then coming over me again, rising higher and higlier, until 

 it passed over the top of Bel-Oiseau mountain. Being un- 

 armed, I had to be content with having " seen " the bird, 

 although within shooting-distance when it first passed me. 



Yours &c., 



Percy E. Freke. 



7 Limes Road, Folkestone, 

 August 4tli, 1899. 



Sirs, — To the notes of Mr. C. W. Andrews on remains 

 of Pelecanus crispus from the lake-dwellings of Glastonbury, 

 you have appended a footnote {antea, p. 352) stating that, 

 " according to Mr. A. C. Chapman, the Pelican is still to be 

 found wild in West Jutland.-''' Danish naturali^ts cannot 

 allow such a statement to pass, and already we have pro- 

 tested ('Ibis,' 1895, p. 294; Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. 

 Foren. Kjobenhavn, 1895, p. 60). One or the other species 

 of Pelican (the species alluded to by Mr. Chapman was 

 P. onocrotalus^ may perhaps be seen in Denmark as the 

 rarest of stragglers ; we have no indisputable evidence of it ; 

 but that " the Pelican '' is not " still to be found wild '' is 

 beyond all doubt. 



Yours &c., 



Herluf Winge. 



Universitets Zoologiske jNIuseum, 

 Kjubenhavii, August 8th, 1899. 



The Bird-Collections of the British Museum. — From the 

 Report on the British Museum for the year ending March 



