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Sirs, — It will be interesting for your readers to know 

 that, being in Lyons last autumn, I bought a fine specimen 

 of the Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo ferox) in the flesh. 

 It had been obtained on October 3rd, 1902, on the Rhone 

 near Feysin, a locality about three miles from Lyons. 

 It was skinned in my presence at Mr. Casartelli's establish- 

 ment, and proved on dissection to be a young female ; it is 

 now in my collection at Caoddo (Padova). When I informed 

 my friend Dr. L. Bureau of this occurrence, the distinguished 

 Director of the Museum of Nantes wrote to me that the 

 specimen in question is of great importance, being the second 

 taken in France. The only example previously known was 

 killed on September 2nd, 1878, by Dr. de Montessus in 

 the Department of Saone d. Loire, and is now preserved 

 in the Museum of Autun. 



Yours &c, 



Count F. Arrigoni Degli Oddi. 



Villa (ltd Monte a Pulicciano, 



Certaldo Val d'Elsa (Toscana). 

 March 24th, 1903. 



Sirs, — I ought to have pointed out before that in the 

 'Ibis' for 1902 (p. 410) Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant lias 

 made it appear that I obtained examples of Pyrrhulauda 

 leucotis (Stanl.) on the White Nile in 1900. The species, 

 however, of which I procured specimens was P. melano- 

 cephala (Licht.), but from want of material I identified them 

 wrongly as P. leucotis (see Ibis, 1901, p. 215). 



Yours &c, 

 Holmelmrst, Burley, New Forest, Harry F. Witherby. 



May l!», L903. 



Proceedinys at the Anniversary Meeting of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, 1903. — The Annual General Meeting 

 of the British Ornithologists' Union was held in the meeting- 

 room of the Zoological Society of London, 3 Hanover 

 Square (by permission of the Council of thai Society), on 



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