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Dr. Sclater's conscientious accuracy must really earn the 

 admiration of every impartial ornithologist. I have given 

 some illustrations of this already {vide pp. 451, et seq.) let me 

 adduce a further example. In the Ibis this moment received,, 

 p. 185, Dr. Sclater says that Mr. Gould believes that Suya 

 superciliar-is, Hume, is Rhopophilus pekinensis, Swinhoe, and he, 

 Dr. S, adds : — " We may remark that there is another Suya 

 superciliaris of Anderson (P. Z. S., 1871, p. 212,) so that 

 Mr. Hume's name would not stand in any case." Will my 

 readers believe that there is no such bird as Suya superciliaris, 

 Hume ? I described the bird as albosuperciliaris, so that this 

 charge of Dr. Sclater's of having described a new bird by a 

 name already appropriated is purely imaginary. — A. 0. H., 

 Ed. ; S. F. 



