466 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



Society, Paumotu, and Marquesas Islands and appendages 

 (2 genera peculiar) ; and (5) the Central Coral-grouj), con- 

 taining the Marshall, Gilbert, Ellice, and other islands. 

 These divisions are briefly discussed and described. We 

 regret that no map of them is given, as that would have 

 rendered the author's arguments much more easily intel- 

 ligible. 



The Catalogue has been prepared at Dresden under the 

 cegis of Dr. A. B. Meyer, whose kind assistance is fully 

 acknowledged. But the Museums of Berlin, Hamburg, 

 Bremen, Leyden, and London have also been visited for the 

 consultation of types. It would have been of great advantage 

 if the author had stated in each case whether he had ex- 

 amined those types, and, indeed, whether he had personally 

 examined specimens of the species at all. In fact, we should 

 have preferred more notes and less synonymy. But we are 

 thankful to Mr. Wiglesworth for what appears to us to be 

 a very useful piece of work, so far as it goes. 



XXXIX. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



We have received the following letters, addressed to the 

 Editor :— 



Sill, — On November 3rd, 1891, 1 received a pair of Bustard- 

 Quails (of what species I was then ignorant) from Mr. A. 

 Jamrach, who informed me that he had obtained them from 

 India. By the loan of a skin on November 19th, I was 

 enabled to identify them as Turnix nigricollis of Madagascar*. 



The following notes I transcribe almost verbatim from my 

 note-books: — ''December 18, 1891. The Black-throated 

 Turnices thrive, and the large and more brightly coloured 

 one, which I believe to be a female, occasionally makes a sort 

 of incipient ' boom,' parva componere magnis, somewhat re- 

 sembling the ' drum ' of the female Emeu. 



* " Black-necked Bustard Quail," J, Sibree, Ibis, 1891, pp. 5G2, 563 : 

 Turnix nigricollis (Gm.), Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1889, pp. 471, 472, et 

 op. cit. 1892, pp. 346, 347. 



