Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. loo 



SiRs^ — With reference to your notice ('TheT.l)is/ 1895, 

 p. 495) of Mr. Ilarvie-Brown's pamphlet on the island of 

 Rockall, I should like to mention that subsequently to the 

 publication of this I have seen Captain Edward Freshwater, 

 of the Giimsby cod-liner 'Undine/ and formerly of the ^ Ada.' 

 In the latter Capt. Freshwater has fished off Rockall, and he has 

 given me much interesting information as to the appearance 

 and character of the rock and the names of those species of 

 birds which he supposed to resort there for breeding purposes. 

 Amongst these he mentioned one as nesting which he called 

 the " Rockall Lyre-bird/' a large sort of Shearwater, and 

 this was common in the vicinity. He had fished in all parts of 

 the North Sea and had never seen this bird anywhere except 

 here and on the Fseroe bank. This doubtless is Piiffinus 

 major. It is to be hoped that in the next summer some 

 enterprising ornithologist will succeed in reaching and landing 

 upon the rock — a most difficult matter, even in the calmest 

 weather — so as to verify this statement. According to Herr 

 H. C. Miiller, Uria bruo.nnichi is also found nesting on 

 Rockall, but further confirmation as regards this species also 

 is very desirable. 



Yours &c., 



John Cordeaux. 

 Great Cotes House, R. S. 0., Luicolu, 

 October 22ud, 1895. 



Sirs, — May I, in 'The Ibis,' correct a mistake in my book 

 ' Ice-bound on Kolguev ' ? " Briinnich's Guillemot ■" (p. 20) 

 should be " The Common Guillemot.'-' 



By a mischance the Curlew-Sandpiper, though referred to 

 in tlie body of the book, is missing from the special chapter 

 and from the index. In this connexion the word " back " 

 should, of course, be " beak." 



Yours &c., 



AuBYN Trevor-Battye. 



Rare Birds at Madras. — From the Report of the Madras 

 Government Museum for the year 1894-95 we learn that 

 " au Oyster-catchcr {Hahiatopus ostralegus) , which is rarely -j- 



