1918.] Letters^ Extracts, and Notes. 737 



only to the Thrushes and Chats of the basin of the Buffalo 

 river, and especially to the Pirie bush in the eastern part of 

 Cape Colony. 



There are many other articles of considerable interest in 

 other branches of natural history well worth the attention 

 of our readers, and we must congratulate Mr. Haagner and 

 his associate editors on their great success in starting this 

 new society, and wish it and its journal a long and pros- 

 perous existence. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 

 American Bird-House Journal. (Vol. iii. No. 1, 1918.) 

 Archivum Meliteuse. (Vol. iii. 1-4, 1918.) 

 Auk. (Vol. XXXV. No. 3, 1918.) 



Avicultural Magazine. (Third Series, Vol. ix. Nos. 9-10, 1918.) 

 Austral Avian Record. (Vol. iii. No. 6, 1918.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. xii. Nos. 1-4, 1918.) 

 Condor. (Vol. xx. Nos. 3 4, 1918.) 

 Bird-Lore. (Vol. xx. Nos. 3-4, 1918.) 

 Bird-Notes. (Third Series, Vol. i. Nos. 1-8, 1918.) 

 El '[lornero. (Tomo i. No. 2, 1918.) 

 Emu. (Vol. xvii. pt. 4, 1918.) 

 Irish Naturalist. (Vol. xvii. Nos. 6-7, 1918.) 

 Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. (Vol, xxv. No. 4.) 

 Kev. Fi-an^aise d'Orn. (Nos. 108-109, 1918.) 

 Scottish Naturalist. (No. 78, 1918.) 

 South Australian Ornithologist. (Vol. iii. pts. 5-6, 1918.) 



XXXV. — Letters, Ewtracts^ and Notes. 



Colonel Tytler's Collection of Birds. 



Sir, — Readers of ' The Ibis ' will be interested to learn 

 that after a long eclipse the well-known collection of birds 

 formed by the late Colonel R. C. Tytler, C.M.Z.S., has come 

 to light again. 



This collection, well known by repute through the 

 writings of Hume and Beavan to all students of Indian 

 Ornithology, was originally housed in Simla by its col- 

 lector and owner at his residence called " Bonnie Moon.^' 



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