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The Emu. (Vol. xv. pt. 3. Melbourne, 1916.) 

 The Irish Naturalist. (Vol. xxv. Nos. 1-3. Dublin, 1916.) 

 Messager Ornithologique. (1915, No. 3. Moscow, 1915.) 

 Sarawak Museum Journal. (Vol. ii. No. 6. Sarawak, 1915.) 

 The Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 49-51. Edinburgh, 1916.) 



XIX. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Sir, — In the recent edition o£ the ' B. O. IT. List of British 

 Birds/ Acanthis linaria rostrata is called the Greenland Red- 

 poll. Coues, who described the bird, called it the Greater 

 Redpoll, as does the A. O. U. Check-list, and though the 

 bird may not be larger than Acanthis hornemanni, the massive 

 beak gives it the appearance of size, and makes the name 

 "Greater^' descriptive. In the CK&e oi Acanthis hornemanni, 

 the B. O. U. List calls it Hornemaun^s Redpoll, the 

 B.O. U. List of 1883 called it the Greenland Redpoll, as 

 does the present A. O. U. Check-list, and between these 

 common names there is nothing to choose except that 

 uniformity between the British and American Lists is 

 desirable. 



May I suggest that in the next British List Acanthis 

 linaria rostrata be called the Greater Redpoll, and I have 

 little doubt that the A. O. U. would reciprocate in the 

 next Check-list and call Acanthis hornemanni Hornemann's 

 Redpoll ? 



Now that Stercorarius parasiticus and Stercorarius longi- 

 caudus mean the same thing in both the B. O. U. and the 

 A. O. U, Lists, it is perhaps not too much to hope for uni- 

 formity — if not in classification, at least in names — in future 

 editions of both Lists. 



I am. Sir, 



267 Rusholme Road, Yours, &c., 



Toronto, Ontai-io. J. H. Fleming. 



January 1, 1916. 



Sir, — An interesting point in connection with the birds 

 of Grand Cayman Island (W. Indies) is that in no fewer 

 than four of them the colour-variation from what may be 



