166 Letters, Extracts, Notices, §c. 



It should be remembered that when I state that I found a 



bird in one locality it is not to be assumed that I imply that it 



occurs in no other. Had I had four years instead of one in 



which to work I should doubtless have increased my localities 



tenfold. 



Yours &c, 



College, Durham, H. B. Tristram. 



Sept. 25th, 1903. 



Sirs, — In Dresser's ' Manual of Palsearctic Birds/ among 

 the species of the genus (Estrelata, I find (E. mollis (p. 856) 

 with the habitat given as "The Southern Seas of the Atlantic 

 north to Madeira." 



In two papers of mine, one on the birds of Cape Verde 

 Islands collected by Signor Leonardo Fea (A.nn. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. (2) xx. pp. 283-312), and the other "On (Estrelata 

 mollis (Gould) and the Allied Species living at Madeira and 

 the Cape Verde Islands" {' Ibis/ 1900, pp. 298-303), I believe 

 that I have shown conclusively that the bird from the 

 Southern Seas (CE. mollis) is specifically different from that 

 living in Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands, which I 

 have named (E. fea. It appears that these papers must 

 have escaped Mr. Dresser's notice. 



Yours &c, 



Zoological Museum, Turin, T. Salvadori. 



6th December, 1903. 



Bird-life on the Upper Kile. — Descending the Upper Nile 

 from Lake Albert to Dufileh, Capt. C. A. Sykes, in his well- 

 written volume on c Service and Sport on the Tropical Nile/ 

 describes the bird-life of that part of the great River as 

 follows : — "In the early morning the birds were always the 

 attraction. Amongst the reeds would generally be some 

 ibises and herons with their wings hung out to dry the damp 

 of the previous night, blinking in the rising sun and making 

 preparations to enjoy the day. Dark red waders with their 

 white caps and long legs would be scudding about the surface 

 of floating vegetation, sometimes rising to fly forty or fifty 



