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village '' Crowthorn" — so called, no doubt, originally from 

 the thorn on which the Crow used to sit. On referring to 

 Lower^s 'Patronymica Britannica^ I find "Gladstone" given 

 as a 'Hocal^^ name, but without any derivation. Can any of 

 our readers kindly tell me where the original " Glead^s- 

 stone " is ? Probably it is somewhere in the lowlands of 

 Scotland, as the ancestors of the present Premier are said 

 to have been in business at Leith. — P. L. Sclater. 



Neivs of various Ornithologists. — jNIr. Frank Withington 

 (late of Buenos Ay res) is now at Zumpango in Mexico, 

 where he is engaged on a contract to make part of the great 

 tunnel intended to drain the valley of Mexico, and has at 

 present consequently not much time for birds. He promises, 

 however, to return to Ornithology as soon as he can get a 

 chance. 



Mr. D. G. Elliot writes (from Quebec, June 14th) that 

 he has in preparation a new edition of his ' Monograph 

 of the Pittidai' (New York, 1863), and will shortly publish 

 Part I. He requires further information respecting Pitta 

 finschi, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ix. p. 864 (1884), 

 which he is inclined to refer to P. cyanonota. Can any of our 

 correspondents furnish this ? The name was unfortunately 

 overlooked in the 14th vol. of the Catalogue of Birds. 



Mr, II. O. Forbes, F.Z,S.,has resigned his post in the Can- 

 terbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand, after three 

 years^ tenure, and has returned to England. He has brought 

 with him a series of very interesting fossil bird-bones from the 

 Chatham Islands, which he proposes to examine carefully 

 and to describe in this country. 



Mr. L. W. Wiglesworth has accepted the post of Assistant 

 in the Royal Zoological Museum of Dresden, lately held 

 by Dr. Helm, and is engaged on a work on birds in connec- 

 tion with Dr. A. B. Meyer, the Director. 



Mr. Arthur H. Holland is now settled in his new estancia 

 (Sta. Elena, Soler, F. C. al P., Buenos Ayres) and will soon 

 have time to turn his attention to the birds of the district. 

 He had just shot (July 8th, 189.2) a specimen of Corypho~ 



