Letters, Announcements, &c. 247 
Rhipidura russata cannot be identical with R. rufofrontata, 
which has the upper surface brown, shading into rich rufous 
on the rump and upper tail-coverts. The whole upper surface 
of my bird is rich rufous. 
Graucalus monotonus I compared with G. papuensis, from 
which it certainly differs. The type of my bird and also of 
Edoliosoma salomonis are both now in the British Museum. 
The female of my Ptilopus ceraseipectus corresponds exactly 
with P. solomonensis, G. R. Gray, in the British Museum. 
But as the plumage is simply of a uniform green, with yellow 
under tail-coverts, andin no way distinguishable from that of 
the female of other species, such as P. rivolii and P. pra- 
sinorrhous, | doubt whether Gray’s name can stand, as it is 
only the locality which enables us to identify it. 
Count Salvadori has kindly sent me his monograph on the 
subgenus Globicera; and I find that my G. richardsi is un- 
doubtedly a mere synonym of his G. rufigula, and must there- 
fore be ignored. 
Yours &c., 
H. B. Tristram. 
February 11, 1880. 
Sirs,—Allow me to correct a slight accidental error in the 
footnote at p. 43 of the present volume; the specimen of 
Urubitinga anthracina, there mentioned as recently added to 
the Norwich Museum, was not sent to England from Domi- 
nica, but from St. Vincent. I would also ask permission to 
correct a misprint in a letter of my own at p. 144, where 
“¢ Haston, in Norfolk,’ should be read instead of “ Eastern 
Norfolk.” 
Tam, &c., 
J. H. Gurney. 
Srrs,—I have read with much interest the news in the last 
number of ‘The Ibis’ of the rediscovery of the rare and re- 
markably formed Humming-bird Loddigesia mirabilis, of 
which, until now, only the original specimen in the Loddige 
