98 Letters, Announcements, tyc. 



16. Podiceps rubricollis, Latham. Red-necked Grebe. 



Obtained in the Straits in winter. I saw two specimens 

 from Tangier so young that they must have been bred in the 

 vicinity. M. Favier asserts that they breed at Ras Dowra, 

 in Morocco ; but I did not obtain any there. 

 x- 17. Podiceps cornutus, Gm. Sclavonian Grebe. 



Very scarce in the Straits in winter ; I have seen three or 

 four specimens. Possibly they may be found among the 

 great numbers of Eared Grebes (P. auritus) which are 

 seen in winter in the Bay of Gibraltar, and which nest in 

 numbers in the Spanish and African lagoons. 



L. Howard Irby. 



Army and Navy Club, 

 October 2, 1872. 



Lilford Hall, Oundle, October 3, 1872. 



Sir, — During my visit to the south of Spain last spring, 

 I fell in, near Seville, with a Short-toed Lark, which I at 

 once recognized as distinct from the ordinary Calandrella 

 brachydactyla, from which species it is distinguished by its 

 greyer shade of colouring as well as its distinctly striped upper 

 surface and breast. Mr. Sharpe, to whom I submitted my 

 specimens, has come to the conclusion, after careful com- 

 parison, that the Lark is not new, but is C. reboudia in full 

 breeding-plumage. 



I was also so fortunate as to obtain, on the 3rd of May, 

 in the Coto de Donana, a male example of Numenius 

 hudsonicus. I am, &c. 



Lilford. 



Marldon, Totnes, 

 December 4, 1872. 

 Sir, — In my letter of the 9th September last (printed in 

 ' The Ibis ' for 1872 at p. 472) I spoke of the Imperial Eagle 

 of Spain under the title of " Aquila imperialis ;" this I did 

 because I considered that the specific distinction between 

 the eastern and western Imperial Eagles, though rendered 

 highly probable by the remarks of Mr. Howard Saunders, 

 published in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society for 



