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graphical errors of the old edition. The reprint will be issued, 

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XXXVIII. — Letters, Announcements, §•<?. 



The following letters, addressed " To the Editor of ' The 

 Ibis/ " have been received : — 



Marldon, near Totnes. 

 20th March 1873. 



Sir,— In 'The Ibis' for 1862, p. 207, I recorded the dates 

 at which a female of Vultur auricularis in my possession had 

 laid an egg during four successive years ending 26th Feb- 

 ruary 1862; and I think it may now be interesting to record 

 the dates of the eggs which the same individual has subse- 

 quently produced, viz. : — 



24th February 1863, 2nd March 1868, 



21st „ 1864, 3rd „ 1869, 



20th „ 1865, 18th „ 1872, 



24th „ 1866, 17th „ 1873. 



This bird has never laid more than one egg in the same 

 year ; her eggs are white, but sometimes, especially in the 

 case of the earlier eggs, more or less sprinkled and clouded 

 with rufous, chiefly towards the obtuse end. 



I am yours, &c. 



J. H. GlJRNEY. 



Sir, — Mr. Blanford has recently directed my attention to 

 a supposed new species of Plover from Burmah, described by 

 Mr. Hume in his new periodical, ' Stray Feathers ' (No. 1, 

 November 1862, p. 17), under the name of Eudromias tenui- 

 rostris. I imagine that it was by a lapsus calami that Mr. 

 Hume wrote Eudromias for jEgialitis; for his description 

 shows that the bird belongs to the latter genus, and in one 

 paragraph he speaks of it as not belonging " to any of the 



