140 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



Twenty-one Birds from the Chatham Islands, including 

 the type of a new Petrel and examples of 3 species new 

 to the collection^ as well as of the nearly extinct Rail, Cabalus 

 modestus ; purchased. 



Two specimens of Porzanula palmeri, a new species of 

 Crake from Laysan Island ; presented by the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild. 



Twenty-seven Birds from the island of Anguilla, West 

 Indies ; presented by the West Indies Exploration Committee. 



Twenty-two specimens of Birds from various localities, 

 including nine Peruvian birds, new to the collection ; 

 presented by the Counts Branicki, of Warsaw. 



Otocorys penicillata in Europe. — Although Mr. Dresser 

 has admitted the beautiful Pencilled Shore-Lark (^Otocorys 

 penicillata) into the category of Western Palsearctic species 

 (B. Eur. iv. p. 395, pi. 244), he has not recorded its occur- 

 rence in Europe. This, however, has been now ascertained for 

 certain, and there can be little doubt that this Lark breeds in 

 the mountains of Bosnia, although, so far as we are aware, 

 its nest has not yet been obtained. It seems to have been 

 first noticed in that country in 1882, when four or five 

 examples were shot near Serajevo by Herr BischoflF. Again, 

 in December 1887 it was observed in the neighbourhood of 

 Livno in small fl-ocks, and some living specimens were 

 captured. A single skin which came to the Museum of 

 Serajevo enabled Dr. Reiser, the Custos of the Museum of 

 Serajevo, to recognize the species as 0. penicillata, a view 

 subsequently confirmed by Ritter v. Tschusi. Later on, in 

 the district of Zupanjac, young birds of the year were ob- 

 tained, which renders it nearly certain that this Shore- 

 Lark breeds in the neighbourhood {cf. Reiser, in Orn. 

 Jahrb. i. p. 106, 1890). 



Collectors in South America. — Herr G. Garlepp, who has 

 lately been in Europe, has now returned to Bolivia, to re- 

 commence his labours in the province of La Paz. On his 

 way there he has obtained a series of about 230 skins on 

 Lake Titicaca and in the adjoining district of High Peru. 



