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as he has already remarked (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ser. 2, vii. 

 p. 421), IS. fuscoyularis is different in structure from S. bur- 

 manicus; he has compared it with many specimens of the latter, 

 and cannot match it with any of them as regards the shape 

 of the bill, which is longer and thinner in S. fuscogularis. 



The Southern Range of the Ccerebida. — In his Report on 

 the progress of Ornithology in 1886 (Wiegm. Arch. 53 Jahrg. 

 ii. Bd. p. 114), Dr. Reichenow points out that in the 11th 

 vol. of the Catalogue of Birds (p. 1) I have committed an 

 error in stating the southern range of the Ccerebidre to stop 

 at the Gulf of Guyaquil on the western slope of South 

 America. My statement was undoubtedly an oversight, as a 

 species of this family, Conirostrum cinereum, has been ob- 

 tained by Jelski (cf. Tacz. Orn. Per. i. p. 425) and by Nation 

 (Cat. B. xi. p. 16) near Lima; by d'Orbigny near Tacna 

 (d'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 875) ; and by Whitely near Arequipa 

 (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 984). In the same district Diglossa brnn- 

 neiventris was also obtained by Whitely. But Tarma, 

 Paucartambo, and Sicasica, other localities mentioned by 

 Dr. Reichenow as proving the existence of the last-named 

 species in Western Southern America south of Guyaquil, 

 are not on the Pacific, but on the Atlantic slope of the 

 Andean range. The fact is that these two high-ranging 

 species of Coerebidse are found on both sides of the water- 

 parting as far south as about 18° S. lat. — P. L. S. 



The Raffles Museum at Singapore.-^-Mr. Davison, writing 

 from Singapore on the 1st November last, gives us a favour- 

 able account of the progress of the Museum under his charge. 

 The collection, he says, is rapidly increasing, in fact faster than 

 he can keep up with the additions, especially in the entomo- 

 logical department. In March next Mr. Davison and Mr. 

 Ridley, the botanist, have arranged to make a collecting- 

 expedition into the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, where, 

 judging from what has been recently done in Perak, they 

 ought to make some grand discoveries. Mr. Davison is plan- 

 ning later on to bring out handbooks on the birds and mam- 



