104 Letters, Announcements, tyc. 



E. minor (Forst.) and (doubtfully) E. undina (Gould), which 

 is the same species. 



We think, however, that Bonaparte must be acquitted of 

 altering Gray's names Aptenodytes forsteri and A. pennanti ; 

 for he adopts those names, and merely writes under the 

 former, " imperator auct.," as explaining that this is the species 

 commonly known as the " Emperor;" so also under A. pen- 

 nanti he writes "rex auct.," the " King Penguin " of authors. 



Prof. Schlegel {' Mus. des P. B., Urinatores,' p. 3), seems 

 to have fathered these two names upon Bonaparte. Even 

 Gray takes the above view with respect to them. He omits 

 them in his ' Hand-list ■ (iii. p. 99), though we see, from an 

 inspection of the copy of Bonaparte's paper formerly in his 

 possession, that his attention had been called' to the point. 



We may further take this opportunity of calling Dr. Coues's 

 attention, and that of our ornithological brethren generally, 

 to an important paper on the Alcidse, recently published by 

 Prof. J. F. Brandt in the ' Bulletin de 1' Academie Imperiale des 

 Sciences de St. Petersbourg,' 1870, pp. 449-497 — which has 

 hitherto escaped our notice, as well as that of the contributors 

 to the ' Zoological Record.' This paper has been rearranged 

 in octavo to form part of the seventh volume of the ' Melanges 

 Biologiques' (pp. 199-268). The memoir itself appears to be 

 very complete, as it contains descriptions of and references to 

 all the species of this family, twenty-one in number. Each 

 genus is also characterized. We may add that the celebrated 

 Sagmatorhina lathami, Bp., about which such various opinions 

 have been held, is here discussed and referred to the young of 

 Lunda cirrhata. We have taken an opportunity of examining 

 the type specimen of Sagmatorhina in the British Museum 

 with reference to this point, and have no doubt as to the 

 correctness of Prof. Brandt's conclusion. 



