.308 Letters, Extracts, Notices, §c. 



comparison with the records in the ' Irish Naturalist 3 and 

 elsewhere. 



Between Oct. 22nd and Dec. 21st no less than 14 speci- 

 mens were reported from the Counties of Antrim, Armagh, 

 Kildare, and Derry, and this is doubtless by no means a 

 complete list. 



It would be interesting to learn whether many individuals 

 were observed about the same time in other parts of Britain, 

 which would perhaps give the line of this unusual migration. 



For details see Mr. Patterson's note in the ' Irish 

 Naturalist 3 of Feb. 1901, Mr. Wright's in 'The Zoologist ' 

 of Dec. 1903, and my own in the ' Avicultural Magazine' 

 of Jan. 1901, 



Yours &c, 



Lismore, \V. II. Workman. 



Windsor, Belfast. 



New Fossil Form referred to the Strut hiones. — At the 

 meeting of the Zoological Society of London on Jan. 19th 

 last Dr. Andrews described a new fossil form of the order 

 Struthiones, based on the distal end of the tibio-tarsus of a 

 large bird which he had himself obtained from the Upper 

 Eocene Beds of the Fayum in Egypt, where it was found 

 associated with remains of Palceomastodon and Arsinoi- 

 therium. It was suggested that this form (which it was 

 proposed to call Eremopezus eocmius) might have been an 

 ancestral relative of the Struthionidae and iEpyornithidee. 



A new Finch from Java. — In 1902, Dr. Finsch (Notes Leyd. 

 Mus. xxiii. p. 151) described a remarkable new species of 

 Finch of the genus Crithagra, based on a single female 

 example sent to him by his energetic correspondent Herr 

 Max M artels, of Pasir Datar, in Java, and named it Crithagra 

 esthera, after his daughter. He has now received from 

 the same correspondent an adult male example of this 

 form and describes and figures both sexes in the January 

 number of the 'Journal fur Ornithologie ' (p. 122, tab. A). /lO^ 

 The new Finch is very curiously coloured with brown, white, 



