132 Letters, Extracts, Notices, fyc. 



38. Simon on Peruvian Trochilidse. 



[Etude sur les Troehilides observes au Perou par G. A. Baer. Par 

 Eugene Simon. Nov. Zool. ix. p, 177.] 



Ill his journey through Eastern Peru, principally in the 

 basin of the Huallaga, the entomological collector Baer 

 obtained a series of Trochilidee, which are referred to 25 

 species by M. Simon. Metallura theresice is described as 

 new, and appears to be quite a distinct species. Psalido- 

 prymna gouldi chlorura of Hartert (Tierr. p. 183) is renamed 

 P. pallidiventris, and is represented as being allied to 

 P. gouldi and P. gracilis, but is stated not to be the same 

 as Lesbia chlorura of Gould. 



39. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1901. 



[Fugleue ved de danske Fyr i 1901. 19de Aarsberetning om danske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vidensk. Medd. f. d. naturh. Foren. i 

 Kbhvn. 1902, pp. 259-323.] 



This is the annual report on the birds met with at the 

 Danish lighthouses (cf. Ibis, 1902, p. 163), and is illus- 

 trated by the usual excellent map, which shews the exact 

 positions of the lights. In 1901, 670 specimens referable to 

 64 species were sent from 31 lighthouses to the Zoological 

 Museum. A list of the species and various notes are given. 



XIII. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, Sj-c. 



We have received the following letters addressed to " The 

 Editors " :— 



Sirs, — I was pleased to see the figure of the courting 

 Robin in < The Ibis ' (1902, p. 678) ; for although I have 

 for a good many years been familiar with this peculiar 

 attitude as assumed by the Robin, I have never before seen 

 a representation of it in any publication. As Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant states that he does not find this courting habit 

 mentioned in any book on British birds, may I refer him to 



