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edgeSj giving it a somewhat streaky or mottled appearance. 

 Belly dirty white, shading into greyish hrown on the flanks ; 

 vent dirty white, feathers edged with pale reddish brown; 

 tail uniform darkish hrown ; shafts of feathers underneath 

 very pale yellowish hrown, inside of wing rich yellowish 

 chestnut ; bill (apparently) brown above and yellowish under- 

 neath, about the same size as that of the Redwing, but 

 slightly stouter; legs and claws yellowish brown. 

 I have no doubt as to the identity of the bird. 



I am &c., 



H. M. Drummond-Hay. 



British Musuem (Natural History), 



Cromwell Road, 



London, S.W., 

 Sept. 3, 1880. 



Sir, —I regret to find that the name of " Poliopsar," 

 which I proposed as a genus for the Indian and Chinese 

 Starlings (Ibis, 1888, p. 476), is preoccupied by Cassiu (Proc. 

 Acad. Phil. 1867, p. 55). I propose therefore to change it 

 to Sjjodiopsar, which will include the following species : — 

 Spodiopsar cineraceus, S. colletti, S. sericeus, S. cambodianus, 

 S. burmanicus, S. leucocephalus, S. andamanensis , S. erythro- 

 pygius, S. malabaricus, S. nemoricola, and S. blythi. 



The new species described by Count Salvadori, Poliopsar 

 fuscogularis (Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. ser. 2, vii. p. 364), 

 is, in my opinion, only a specimen of Spodiopsar burmanicus 

 with dirt on the throat, as Mr. Gates showed me, when the 

 type was sent to him by Count Salvadori for examination. 



I am &c., 



R. BOWDLER ShARPE. 



Croft House, Holywood, Co. Down, 

 September 7th, 1889, 



Sir, — Mr. Robert Gage, of Rathlin Island, reports the 

 capture there on Monday last, 2nd inst., of a specimen of 

 the Fulmar Petrel {Fulmarus fflacialis), the first and only 



