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From this it will be seen that all the specific names 

 hitherto applied to the two species refer properly to the 

 northern form, and I can see no alternative but to give a 

 fresh name to the southern or olive- crowned species. I pro- 

 pose therefore to call it Coracias mosambicus, retaining the 

 name of Coracias ncevius for the rufous-crowned (or northern) 

 species. Yours &c, 



H. E. Dresser. 



Edinburgh, May 3, 1890. 



Sir, — In a small collection of skins lately received from 

 Madeira, I find a specimen which Mr. Salvin has identified 

 as (Estrelata mollis (Procellaria mollis, Gould, B. Austr. vii. 

 pi. 50). This bird was taken on the Ilho de Baixo, off Porto 

 Santo. This is a fact which you may consider sufficiently 

 interesting to place on record, more especially as I understand 

 that there are two specimens of the same bird in the Cam- 

 bridge Museum, obtained (as I am informed by Prof. Newton) 

 some 35 years ago by Mr. Robert Frere from near Madeira. 

 Although rather a rare species, it seems by no means im- 

 probable that it may be yet found breeding upon some of the 

 other rocks of the Madeiran group. 



Yours, &c v 

 John J. Dalgleish. 



Butorides virescens in Cornwall. — At the Meeting of the 

 Linnean Society on the 17th April last, Sir Charles Sawle 

 exhibited a specimen of the North-American Little Heron, 

 Butorides virescens, which had been shot by his keeper, W. 

 Abbott, on the 27th of October, 1889, on his estate, Penrice, 

 St. Austell, Cornwall. The specimen was brought to Sir 

 Charles in the flesh, and forwarded to Mr. Foote, birdstuffer, 

 Bath, for preservation. 



Butorides virescens has a wide distribution over North and 

 Central America and the Antilles, and likewise visits the Ber- 

 mudas*. There is therefore no antecedent improbability of 



* See Reid, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 25, p. 244. 



