Letters, Announcements, Notes, Sc. 653 
a Psitlacus cyaneus Sparrm. (Coriphilus cyaneus Wagl. Mon. 
Psitt. p. 564) (see Salvadori, Cat. of the Psittaci, p. 46). 
I am, Sirs, yours &e., 
Turin Zool. Mus., T. SALVADORI. 
July 19th, 1907. 
[We have communicated with Mr. Scott Wilson on this 
subject. He much regrets the oversight, and proposes to 
alter the name of the new species to Coriphilus cyanescens.— 
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Srrs,—In the last number of the ‘ Ornithologische 
Monatsberichte’? (pp. 185-6) Dr. Reichenow has written 
some remarks upon Phebetria cornicoides and Sterna antt- 
stropha, which he considers are called for by the statements 
made in my recent paper in ‘ The Ibis’ on the “ Birds of the 
Weddell Sea” (above, p. 325). 
As regards the two Sooty Albatroses, the specific distinction 
of which he is not at present inclined to concede, he says that 
I “imagine” that Phebetria fuliginosa inhabits the South 
Atlantic, while P. cornicoides occurs only in the Antarctic 
Ocean. I must say, however, that I never “imagined” any- 
thing of the kind. I alluded to the almost impossible task 
of unravelling the tangled skein involved in defining the 
range of the two forms, and then proceeded ¢o record the 
facts that all the birds obtained or seen by the Scottish 
Expedition in the far south belonged to P. cornicoides ; 
while P. fuliginosa was only observed by the expedition in 
the South Atlantic. So far, indeed, was I from saying that 
P. fuliginosa was confined to the South Atlantic that I 
remarked “it is certain that this Albatros does attain to a 
higher degree in southern latitudes”—i. e. than 58°, the 
highest in which it was observed by the ‘ Scotia’s’ naturalists. 
As to the Terns observed and obtained in the far south, 
Dr. Reichenow claims that they were specimens of his Sterna 
antistropha. Here, again, I would refer him to my state- 
ment (op. cit. p. 847) that “the ‘Scotia’s’ specimens do 
not exhibit the peculiarities attributed to this subspecific 
