306 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. [Ibis, 



Mr. Kuroda has sent us a copy of his paper on the migrrttion 

 of some of the commoner \vaders of Japan, which runs to a 

 good many pages and is evidently of considerable importance. 

 It is also published by the Ja})anese Ornithological Society. 

 It would certainly be of the greatest assistance to European 

 ornithologists if, at any rate, a short summary in some 

 European language of these doubtless valuable researches 

 could be appended to the original Japanese. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



BoNHOTE, T. L. Bh'd-liming in Lower Egypt. (Cau-o, 1919.) 

 HoPKiNSOx, E. A List of the Birds of the Gambia. (Brighton, 1919.) 

 Mathrws, G. M. Austral Avian Record. (Voh iii. no. 7.) 

 Mullens, W. H., Swann, H. Iv., and Jourdain, F. C. R. A Geogra- 

 phical Bibliography of British Ornithology. Part 1. (1919.) 

 Swann, H. K. Synoptical List of the Aceipitres. (Part 2.) 

 Thorbuhn, a. a Naturalist's Slietch-Book. 



WiTHERBY, H. F. A Practical Handbook of British Birds. (Part 5.) 

 Avicultural Magazine. (Vol. x. no. 12.) 

 Bulletin of the Pan-American Union. (Aug. 1919.) 

 France. (1918, no. 1.) 



.Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam. (Vol. iii. no. 3.) 

 lievista Centro de Cultura Scientifica. (1919, no. 4.) 

 Revue Fran^aise d'Ornithologie. (Nos. 124-125.) 



VIII. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Dear Sir, — The following observations of birds were 

 made by me whilst on board the Liverpool steamer ' Ikala/ 

 and ma}^ be of interest to your readers. 



On 1 November, when the ship was in Lat. 49°30'N., 

 Long. 30° W. — roughly 750 miles west of the south of 

 Ireland — quite a stream of land-birds visited it. At 8 a.m., 

 G.M.T., there Avere resting on board or circling round 

 several Chaffinches (all males), two Starlings, one Missel 

 Thrush, four Skylarks, and one Kittiwake. Half a gale was 

 blowing from the east, and a long heavy swell from that 

 direction indicated a storm between us and the land. At 

 2 P.M. a Skua came aboard in an exhausted condition, and 



