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peyanus ; but a few golden feathers are appearing on the back 

 and sides of the head : the lower back is greyish-white, each 

 feather with a dark central streak ; upper tail-coverts very long 

 and pure ivhite : tail reddish -brown (quite dilfferent from the rufous- 

 cinnamon of L. impeyanus), with a broadish creamy-white tip : 

 lower parts and quills black, the former somewhat glossy : nude 

 skin of the face of great extent and cobalt-blue : bill and legs 

 horny yellow : in size somewhat larger than L. impeyanus. 

 Should this prove to be an undescribed species, I would pro- 

 — i— pose for it the name of Lophophorus sclateri, after your 

 predecessor in the editorship of ' The Ibis,' who has done so 

 much towards elucidating the Pheasant-family. 



I am, &c., 



T. C. Jerdon, 

 Retired Deputy Inspector- General of Hospitals. 



*>H* \y^^ think there can be no question of the bird above 

 described being quite distinct from L. Ihuysi (the habitat of 

 which, we may mention, appears to be Tibet* and not Northern 

 China, as was at first supposed), since that species has the tail 

 of a green bronze ; and as no person can speak more authorita- 

 tively on the subject of its distinctness from L. impeyanus than 

 Dr. Jerdon, there can be little doubt that L. sclateri is a well- 

 marked and good species. — Ed.] 



Ilelsing-fors, October 29, 1869. 

 Sir, — It may interest you to know thsit Lusciniopsis fluviatilis 

 (Wolf) occurs in the south-eastern part of Finland. Some 

 weeks ago I obtained a specimen of that bird, killed by my 

 friend Dr. L. M. Runeberg, near Borga, about twenty English 

 miles to the east of Helsingfors, on the 24th of June last. As 

 you know, this species has never before been recorded from 

 Finland or from Scandinavia. Magnus von Wright mentions 

 in his ' Fnilands Foglar ' (i. p. 140, note) that he had heard at 

 Kyrkslatt and Uskela, near Abo, some Warblers singing, which 

 he believed to be Sylvia locustella. These I imagine must have 

 been Lusciniopsis fluviatilis. 



* Fide Sclater, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 1. 



