400 Letters, Extracts, Notices, S^-c. 



The Reviewer himself admits that the name is given in 

 full in the special part ; in the general part it is sufficient to 

 show that a new form has been recognized without naming it. 



P. G. " Haliastur " vocifer should be " Haliaetus ." This is 

 Mr. Bowker^s error, but should have been corrected. 



The ' Zoological Record ' does not profess to correct errors 

 of the printers of ' Ornis.' Probably the word was Haliaetus 

 in the MS., though Haliastur is a perfectly legitimate genus, 

 and the author may for some reason wish to refer the species 

 in question to it. The critic's repetition of " this " is an 

 instance of a similar slip of the pen (or press). 



P. 45. Chlorura belongs to the Ploceidse, not to the Frin- 

 gillidpe. 



Even if Chlorura belongs to the Ploceidse, the mistake is 

 due to Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, who puts it under Frin- 

 gillidfe {of. Ibis, 1887, p. 453). 



P. 50. Melilestes belongs to the Meliphagidse, not to the 

 Nectariniidse. 



Here the Reviewer should have proceeded with a little of 

 the caution he inculcates. True, the type of Melilestes is 

 Meliphagine, but not so the species in question, which is 

 referred to the genus Araclinothera, included in the British 

 Museum Catalogue (ix. p. Ill, pi. 1. fig. 2) under Nectari- 

 niidge. 



P. 54. Podoces should, in our opinion, go rather with the 

 Corvidai than the Sturnidse. 



A matter of ojDinion, as the affinities of Podoces have not 

 been determined by anatomy, and its habits agree at least as 

 well with the Sturnidse as with the Corvidae. 



P. 54. The Sylviidse have now become rather a refuge for 

 the destitute. Can Accentor, Cryptolopha, and Tharrhaleus, 

 in any wise be held to belong to it ? 



If Accentor and its relative Tharrhaleus (misspelt Thalar- 

 rheus in the criticism) are not to be referred, in common 

 with the best authorities, to the Sylviidse, we must consent to 

 a family Accentoridse, the necessity for which has never been 

 shown. Cryptolopha appears to be closely allied to Phijllu- 

 scopus and therefore falls more naturally under Sylviidae 



