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milesi should be compared with it; but meanwhile I am 

 disposed to consider Otas abyssinicus and Bubo milesi as one 

 and the same species, w T hich, in that case, ought to stand as 

 Bubo abyssinicus. I am &c, 



J. H. GURNEY. 



Sir, — I beg leave to point out that Capt. Shelley's identi- 

 fication of my Estrelda nonnula with Habropyga tenerrima 

 (P. Z. S. 1888, p. 31) is an error. In H. nonnula the ground- 

 colour of the back is brownish olive ; in H. tenerrima of 

 Reichenow it is grey, and on this grey there are dark fasciae 

 not found in H. nonnula. 



I believe these two species to be quite distinct, and 

 Dr. Reichenow is of the same opinion. 



Yours &c, 



Bremen, Feb. 15th, 1890. Q # Hartlaub. 



Labuan, Borneo, 

 Jan. 20, 1890. 



Sir, — I wish to place on record the occurrence in Borneo 

 of Fuligula cristata (Leach) and of a Phalarope, probably 

 Lobipes hyperboreus (Linn.), which has already been indi- 

 cated as a probable visitant to Borneo by Count Salvadori. 

 The latter specimen was shot at Baram Point in October, 

 but was too much mutilated for preservation. The Duck 

 was shot at Labuan in October, and identified by comparison 

 with the description in the last edition of YarrelPs ' British 

 Birds/ 



Yours &c., 



A. H. Everett. 



Birds of the Bellenden-Ker Range, Queensland. — Appended 

 to the Report of Mr. A. Meston on the Government scien- 

 tific expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range in Northern 

 Queensland, which has recently been presented to the 

 Parliament of Queensland, is a report on the zoology of the 

 expedition by Mr. C. A. De Vis, Curator of the Queensland 

 Museum, Brisbane. The expedition started from Cairns on 



