Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, ^c. 237 



"Long. 81"; rostr. a fr. 7'"; al. 4" 6'"; caud. 4"; tars. 11"'. 

 " Nearly allied to C. puella, but differing in the reddish colour 

 of the forehead and the rectrices. It is also smaller than C. puella. 

 " Spec. unic. in Mus. Bremens. 

 " Hab. Gaboon : Mr. Brehmer." 



With reference to Mr. Sclater's note on Dendrceca chrysoparia 

 {antea, p. 87), that gentleman wishes us to state that the second 

 example mentioned (p. 88) as being " without any label, but 

 probably an immature male " of that species, was, as he has just 

 heard from Mr. H. E. Dresser, shot by Mr. Dresser himself near 

 San Antonio, Texas, and not received from Dr. Heermann. It 

 is therefore, in all probability, to be referred to D, virens, having 

 been shot in company with others of that species, and not to D. 

 chrysoparia. 



Mr. John Hancock has been kind enough to submit to our 

 inspection the specimen of the Pipit in his collection, which we 

 mentioned in our last Number (p. 116) as having been obtained 

 in this country. This bird, which was shot from the nest at 

 Chepstow, in Monmouthshire, 18th April, 1854, appears to us 

 to be probably a female of Anthus rupestris, Nilsson, the differ- 

 ences between which and our own indigenous Anthus ohscurus, 

 however, seem to be so slight that we rather hesitate to regard 

 them as forming specific characters. They consist, so far as we 

 can ascertain, merely in the presence of a bright buff or pale 

 cinnamon tinge on the breast of the male in A. rupestris, and, 

 perhaps, in that form being of a slighter build than A. ohscurus. 

 In the female of the so-called A. rupestris, the warm colour is 

 much more faintly indicated ; in some specimens it is doubtful 

 whether it exists at all. The outer tail-feathers, which in Anthus 

 spinoletta afford so sure a diagnosis, are in A. rupestris just as 

 dingy as in ^. ohscurus. Two Pipits, killed on the 7th March, 

 1864, near Norwich (see ' Zoologist,' p. 9109), have also been 

 kindly lent us for comparison by Mr. Stevenson. One of them, 

 which we suppose to be a male, exactly corresponds with males 

 of A. rupestris from Sweden ; the other, a presumed female, is 

 hardly to be distinguished from females of A. ohscurus ; but the 



