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company she was keeping, at the time of her death, makes it 

 probable that she also should be referred to A. rupestiis. We 

 imagine that the prevalent form of Rock-Pipit in Scandinavia is 

 A. rupestris; but that A. ohscurus occurs there as well we are 

 assured by Mr. Hancock, who has also favoured us with the loan 

 of a fine male A. rupestjns from the neighbourhood of Dieppe. 

 We trust our readers will give the subject their attention during 

 the ensuing season, and will report to us their observations upon 

 it. 



In our last Number {antea, p. 104) we suggested the possibility 

 of the specimen oiLarus or Rhodostethia rossi, which is now in the 

 Derby Museum of Liverpool, being identical with that which is 

 known to have been possessed by the late Mr. Joseph Sabine. 

 We have since heard from Mr. T. J. Moore that he has made a 

 search among Lord Derby's memorandums, and finds that the 

 example now at Liverpool was obtained in the year 1835 from 

 Mr. Gould; so that it is probably not identical with that of 

 Mr. Sabine, who, prior to 1831 (F. B.-A. vol. ii. Introd. p. xii), 

 had transferred his collection to the Andersonian Institution of 

 Glasgow — where, however, we have looked, and looked in vain, 

 for this valuable specimen, as well as for several others which 

 we have reason to believe were formerly in that gentleman's pos- 

 session. As the subject is one of some little interest, we should 

 be glad if any of our readers could inform us whether this 

 species was ever included in Mr. Sabine's contribution to the 

 Andersonian Museum ; and if it was, what has since become of it. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin has called our attention to the fact that 

 Mr. Lawrence's recently described Corethrura guatemalensis 

 {antea, p. 106) is, in all probability, identical with the already 

 known C. rubra (Sclater and Salvin, P.Z.S. 1860, p. 300). 



Mr. Edward Newton writes to us from Mauritius : — 



'^ On reading Dr. Kirk's paper on the 'Birds of the Zambesi 



Region' (Ibis, 1864, pp. 307-339), I am much struck with 



the similarity between some of the Zambesi native names of 



birds and those applied by the natives of Madagascar to more 



