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mann's ' Bibliotheca Historico-naturalis '); I found this out 

 while preparing the volume on the Parrots for the British- 

 Museum Catalogue, and I am afraid that the name Micro- 

 glossus (1821-23) will have to give way to Solenoglossus, 

 Zanzani (1821), or to Probosciger , Kuhl (1820), if we can 

 use Ruhr's name, which appears to me very doubtful. 



Plictolophus, amended for Plyctolophus, Vieill., was used, 

 according to Reichenow (Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 23), by 

 Le Maout in 1853 (Hist. Nat. Ois. p. 106), and this is prior 

 to Finsch (Die Papageien, i. p. 265, 1867). 



Podicipes, the corrected form of Podiceps, is attributed by 

 Mr. Waterhouse to Babington (' Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Suffolk/ p. 200, 1884-86). But it was suggested before 

 by Gloger (Journ. fur Ornith. 1854, p. 430, note), and it was 

 also used, previously to Mr. Babington, by Elliott Coues in 

 his ' Check-List of North-American Birds,' p. 129 (1882). 



Yours &c, 



T. Salvadori. 



Northrepps, 



Nov. 19, 1889. 



Sir, — I am desirous of putting on record the following 

 short notes : — 



The Rev. Edmund Fitch, who has recently returned to 

 England after a residence of over four years at Chagga, in 

 Eastern Africa, about 4500 feet above the sea-level, on the 

 southern slope of Rilima-njaro, has presented to the Norwich 

 Museum a specimen of Buteo augur, a species which he in- 

 forms me is abundant about Chagga, nesting in trees at a 

 height of from twenty to thirty feet, and preying chiefly on 

 snakes, which Mr. Fitch has often observed these Buzzards 

 carrying in their talons when on the wing. 



I am indebted to Mr. Fitch for two skins obtained at 

 Chagga of birds which are not mentioned in Captain Shel- 

 ley's Rilima-njaro list, published in the P. Z. S. 1885, p. 222. 

 One of these is an immature specimen of Pseudotantalus ibis, 

 which was shot while perched on the roof of Mr. Fitch's 



