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erijthrophthalmus in the Wied Collection in New York. lie 

 says that I examined the two type-specimens in New York, 

 but on referring to my note (Ibis, 1874, p. 319) it will be 

 seen that I speak of having found the female only. Had 

 I seen the male, the difference between it and Metopiana 

 pepusaca would have been as apparent to me as it subse- 

 quently was to Mr. Allen, 



I take this opportunity to refer to another small point in 

 the last number of ' The Ibis.^ On page 156 you make me 

 responsible for the name Bulweria bulweri. This particular 

 combination of generic and specific names is more than half 

 a century old ; it was made by Bonaparte in 1842, and has 

 been endorsed by all recent American writers and by Seebohm. 

 If you reject the specific name bulweri on account of its simi- 

 larity to the generic name Bulweria, you will have to accept 

 Heincken^s name anginho as the specific title of Bulwer's 

 Petrel. I never use such combinations as Pica pica and the 

 like, but Bulweria bulweri does not offend my ears. In 

 reference to the date of plate 65 of Jardine and Selby's 

 * Illustrations of Ornithology,' where Bulwer^s Petrel is first 

 described, I may add that Mr. Sherborn gives it (Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 326) as not later than Nov. 1828. 



I am, 



Yours &c., 



OSBERT SaLVIN. 



10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, 

 Feb. 14th, 1896. 



Sirs, — Prom the editorial note entitled ' Rare Birds at 

 Madras,' in the last number of 'The Ibis/ pp. 155, 156, it 

 might be inferred that Phalaropus hyperboreus has never 

 been obtained in India since the appearance of Jerdon's 

 ' Birds,' vol. iii. (1864), wherein occurs the paragraph quoted 

 to the effect that " a single instance is on record of the 

 occurrence of this bird in India." 



The Red-necked Phalarope is, however, by no means 

 particularly rare on the Indian coast, as Mr. Hume has 

 shown. The bird is frequently referred to in the pages 



