Letters, Extracts, Notices, 6fc. 295 



infumatus {' The Ibis/ 1890^ p. 452) are not quite correct, 

 as what I gave (J. f. O. 1889, p. 423) were not my own notes, 

 but those of my correspondent. I said especially^ " Cypse- 

 liden habe ich in Ober Assam nicht erlegt/^ Further on 

 you remark : "^^A Swift determined as Collocalia linchi (?) was 

 also obtained there." I included my notes on " Collocalia 

 linchi " in quotation-marks, and added : " Ich lasse die 

 hoch interessante Beobachtung meines Freundes hier folgen, 

 obgleich bei der Schwierigkeit der Bestimmung der Arten 

 von Collocalia es wiinschenswert ware ein Exemplar vorlieg- 

 end zu haben." 



So you see I did not determine the Swift as Collocalia 

 linchi. Had I killed a specimen I should have determined 

 it so carefully that no query would have been necessary. 

 I hope^ however^ to receive in a short time some specimens 

 of this Swift from Assam and Cachar, or, perhaps, to be 

 able to go and shoot some myself. 



Yours &c., 



Ernst Hartert. 



Villa Taunenliof, near llalleiu, 

 Feb. 5th, 1891. 



Sir, — On the 2ist of January, 1891, three specimens of 

 the Eastern Shore-Lark {Otocorys penicillata, Gould) were 

 shot by the high-for6ster, Andr. Geschwind, at Travuik 

 (Bosnia). One of them I received in the flesh, the two 

 others went to the Bosnian Museum at Serajevo. 



My specimen is a young female ; it has the white parts of 

 the face yellowish. Total length 19*8 centim., wing 11-6, 

 tail 7-5. 



This is the second record of the occurrence of this Eastern 

 bird in Bosnia. The first notice was given by Herr O. Reiser 

 (Ornith. Jahrb. 1890, pp. 106-108). 



Yours, &c., 



V. TSCHUSI zu SCHMIDHOFFEN. 



