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(Nucifraga caryocatactes) is left out in the cold, although in this 
case there are a score of unquestioned records of its occurrence: 
the questionable ortolan (Emberiza hortulana) is admitted, while 
the pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), parrot crossbill (Loaia 
pityopsittacus) and whitewinged crossbill (L. bifusciata), those old 
and respected inhabitants, are turned out. 1 cannot say a single 
word in defence of the black woodpecker (Picus martius); I should 
certainly have expunged him and his thirty-three localities from 
both lists; but I regret the fate of the collared pratincole (Glareola 
pratincola) and the blackwinged stilt (Himantopus candidus). 
At page 179 is given, in parallel columns, a summary of Mr. 
Harting’s decisions whether a species shall be considered truly indi- 
genous or not: the difficulty of the task is abundantly manifest, 
and although these decisions, in many cases, seem rather capricious 
and arbitrary, yet I believe they would still have that appearance 
however they were altered. On one point there can. be no 
difference of opinion—the extreme utility of the second list, and 
the great boon Mr. Harting has conferred on us by the publication 
of the particulars of every instance in which the occurrence of a 
rare species has been recorded. The question why a species that 
has occurred a dozen times should be called “ British,” and one 
that has occurred two dozen times should be called “ accidental,” 
is open to discussion ; but there can be no two opinions as to the 
value of the details given in the “ accidental” list. 
_ I shall, I believe, never be a disciple of the views of nomenclature 
which Mr. Harting appears mildly to advocate. I am disposed 
rather to be a convert to the views of Mr, Lewis, as expressed in 
regard to Entomology, and think that the “resurrection-men of 
science” are doing us an irreparable injury. One observation 
more; I do not exactly perceive how Mr. Harting has kept the 
promise of his title as regards “showing the distribution of the 
Resident and Migratory species in the British Islands.” 
Epwarp NEWMAN. 
Ornithological Notes from the North-Western Provinces, India. 
By Anprew ANDERSON, Esq., F.Z.S. - 
(Continued from Zool. §. 8. 2678). 
Nesting of the Whitebacked Vultwre.— Camp Muckunnuggur, Cawnpore, 
October 25, 1871. Encamped close to a group of trees, where a colony of 
