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  The 
  specimen 
  sent 
  was 
  captured 
  on 
  the 
  nest, 
  and 
  I 
  could 
  

   have 
  caught 
  others. 
  When 
  approached 
  tliey 
  uttered 
  a 
  loud, 
  

   melancholy 
  cry. 
  The 
  feathers 
  on 
  the 
  forehead, 
  immediately 
  

   above 
  the 
  beak, 
  are 
  erected 
  in 
  life 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  short 
  but 
  

   very 
  distinct 
  crest. 
  On 
  the 
  skin 
  they 
  lie 
  flat. 
  

  

  The 
  specimen 
  sent 
  is 
  a 
  male. 
  The 
  iris 
  was 
  brown 
  above, 
  

   greenish 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  portion. 
  The 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  eyelid, 
  and 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  mandible, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  legs, 
  feet, 
  

   and 
  claws, 
  are 
  inky 
  black. 
  The 
  bill 
  was 
  black, 
  tips 
  lighter. 
  

   The 
  throat 
  was 
  not 
  bare. 
  Length, 
  in 
  flesh, 
  from 
  tip 
  of 
  

   bill 
  to 
  end 
  of 
  tail, 
  2 
  feet 
  3| 
  inches. 
  The 
  eggs 
  sent, 
  procured 
  

   at 
  Dassen 
  Island, 
  are 
  marked 
  "26.10.92.0.''^ 
  2 
  specimens; 
  

   '' 
  26.10.92. 
  q." 
  1 
  specimen. 
  

  

  Subsecjuently, 
  when 
  lying 
  off 
  Jutten 
  Island, 
  in 
  the 
  mouth 
  

   of 
  Saldanha 
  Bay, 
  I 
  heard 
  what 
  was 
  evidently 
  the 
  cry 
  of 
  the 
  

   same 
  species. 
  

  

  I 
  am, 
  Sir, 
  &c., 
  

  

  W. 
  G. 
  Fairbridge. 
  

  

  21st 
  December, 
  1892. 
  

  

  [Professor 
  Newton 
  informs 
  us 
  that 
  the 
  specimen 
  above 
  

   mentioned 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  sent 
  to 
  England 
  corresponds 
  in 
  

   all 
  respects 
  Avith 
  Wahlberg's 
  description 
  of 
  his 
  Graculus 
  

   neglectus 
  (Journ. 
  fiir 
  Orn. 
  1857, 
  p. 
  4), 
  leaving 
  little 
  room 
  

   for 
  doubt 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Fairbridge 
  is 
  right 
  in 
  assigning 
  his 
  birds 
  

   to 
  that 
  species, 
  to 
  which 
  probably 
  belonged 
  the 
  examples 
  

   obtained 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Layard 
  and 
  Oaptain 
  Sperling 
  in 
  Simon's 
  

   Bay 
  in 
  1867 
  (Ibis, 
  1868, 
  pp. 
  120, 
  121), 
  there 
  referred 
  by 
  the 
  

   former 
  to 
  Phalacrocorax 
  carho, 
  but 
  suggested 
  by 
  our 
  prede- 
  

   cessor 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  some 
  other 
  species. 
  — 
  Ed.] 
  

  

  Sir, 
  — 
  In 
  a 
  recent 
  paper 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Oustalet 
  on 
  Nias 
  birds 
  

   (Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Philom. 
  (8) 
  iv. 
  pp. 
  107-122), 
  he 
  mentions 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  Cittocincla 
  tricolor 
  (Vieill.) 
  from 
  that 
  island; 
  

   and 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  together 
  with 
  my 
  Cittocincla 
  

   melanuru, 
  induces 
  him 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  the 
  latter, 
  after 
  all, 
  

   may 
  not 
  be 
  quite 
  so 
  distinct 
  as 
  I 
  had 
  supposed. 
  

  

  I 
  wish 
  to 
  mention 
  that 
  when 
  Dr. 
  Oustalet 
  kindly 
  showed 
  

   me 
  his 
  materials, 
  during 
  a 
  recent 
  visit 
  to 
  the 
  Paris 
  Museum, 
  

  

  