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when observed, and getting up quickly, something like Par- 

 tridges, but flying more like Golden Plovers, I managed to 

 get a good sight of them, and unless they are Pallas's Grouse 

 I do not know what they are. They are light grey in colour, 

 with blackish breasts and short legs, and Avhen flying their 

 tails seem short and pointed. They utter a sharp ' whirr, 

 whirr.^ My brother shot one here more than twenty years 

 ago in the same place where I saw these birds, as mentioned 

 in Gray^s work on British Birds." 



Yours &c., 



J. W. P. Campbell-Orde. 



Zoological Society's Gardens, 

 Aug. 3rd, 1^88. 



Sirs, — Allow me to correct an error in my paper " On the 

 Classiflcation of the Striges," published in the July number 

 of this Journal. There is a mistake in the description of 

 woodcut fig. 4 (p. 339), the foot of Bubo there figured being 

 the left, not the right. 



Yours &c., 



Frank E. Beddard. 



Bremen, Aug. 27, 1888. 



Sirs, — In Mr. Ridgway's lately-published " Review of the 

 Genus Psittacula" (Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 529) I am 

 much surprised to find no mention of my P. spengeli (P. Z. S. 

 1885, p. 614, pi. xxxviii.). Now I consider the species 

 described by Mr. Ridgway as P. exquisita to be my P. spengeli, 

 which name has, of course, priority. 



As to P. cyanochlora of Natterer (/. s. c), I cannot quite 

 reconcile it with any of Mr. Ridgway's species, but I am 

 inclined to believe that it is the same as his P. deliciosa. 

 If Mr. Ridgway^s views are correct, the females of all 

 the Psittacula have their wings without any blue. The 

 very great extent of the subalar cobalt-blue in our specimen 

 of P. cyanochlora seems to show that it is not a female or 



