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but must end by noting that the well-known British Grey 

 and Blue-headed Wagtails and the Garganey were met with 

 by the Expedition. 



It is unnecessary to give the names of the party in our 

 own journal, and we all know how excellent their work has 

 been ; but we cannot refrain from deploring the sad deatli 

 by accident of Mr. Stalker, whose place was so well filled by 

 Mr. Claude Grant. 



XXXVI. — Letters^ Extracts, and Notes. 



We have received the following letters addressed " to the 

 Editors'^:— 



Sirs, — Would you kindly call attention in your next issue 



of ' The Ibis ' to a mistake which occurs on page 508 of the 



last number (July 1912). At the top of that page " CoereI)a 



hiteola major " should be " Ccrreba luteola " only, and the 



words " (PI. VIII. fig. 2) " which follow " Ccereba luteola 



major '^ should be transferred from the top of the page to 



after "" C. luteola major,''' about halfway down p. 508. 



I am, Sirs, 



Yours &c.. 



The Hatch, Windsor, Percy R. Lowe. 



July 11th, 1912. 



^iRS, — As the references in Mr. R. Gurney's letter [antea, 

 T>. 352) apply to my papers on Corsican ornithology, I trust 

 that I may be permitted to say a few words in reply. 



In the first place the English name of each species is 

 given in the paper in question as well as the scientific name, 

 and where the scientific name is liable to be misunderstood, 

 well-known synonyms have been added in brackets. There 

 is therefore no cause for confusion in the mind of any 

 English reader as to what bird is referred to. 



As I stated on p. 322 I have followed Dr. Ilartert's 



