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week near Culmorc, Co. Deny ; and on the lOtli instant a 

 Holler {Coracias (jarrula) was shot near Incli^ Co. Donegal. 



Yours &c., 



E. Lloyd Patterson. 



Musoum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, 

 November 18th, 1891. 



SiRj — I had followed up my slight note on the oecurrence 

 of Grus leucogeranus in the Outer Hebrides (Ibis, 1891, 

 p. G35) by the full and interesting particulars relating to 

 its capture &c. Avhich had been kindly furnished to me by 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown, to whom they had been communicated 

 by Dr. John MacRury who shot the bird. 



Since then, however, Mr. E. W. Marshall, of Marlow, 

 Bucks, has written to the ' Field ' (Nov. 14th, 1891, p. 758) 

 to inform the j^ublic that there escaped from his keeping, in 

 August last, a bird of this species, which had been " brailed,^^ 

 and not pinioned in the ordinary way. This bird Mr. Marshall 

 considers is probably identical with the one which met with 

 its death in the far-off island of Barra, and in this opinion I 

 entirely concur. 



I must therefore request you, Sir, to withdraw my commu- 

 nication and to insert in its stead this letter as my further 

 contribution to the subject. The elucidation of the truth 

 is always a matter for congratulation, and the information 

 which has been adduced regarding the origin of this parti- 

 cular specimen being in all respects satisfactory, it affords 

 me pleasure to make it known to you. 



Yours &c., 



Wm. Eagle Clarke. 



The College, Durham, 

 1st December, 1891. 



Sir, — An expression in your notice of a memoir by Dr. 

 Koenig on the ornithology of the Canaries, in your last 

 number, seems to call for a word from me. 



I had not seen nor heard of this memoir till I saw your 

 notice ; and, now that I have read the attack upon myself, I 



