378 Letters, Hatracts, Announcements, &c. 
The females, being weaker than the males, only catch small 
fish, hence their lower value. Very good birds reach a value 
of Fls. 10 a pair, a well-trained male beg worth $6 or $7. 
The females lay when one year old.” 
Note on Chrysotis apophznica.—The bird thus lately named 
by Dr. Reichenow (Orn. Centr. 1880, p. 16) seems to me to 
be only the female of C. albifrons. Dr. Reichenow kindly 
showed me his type when I was at Berlin last month. There 
are several similar examples in the collection of Salvin and 
Godman. One of these was obtained by Salvin himself, 
along with another in the usual plumage of C. albifrons, on 
the Rio Motagua, Guatemala, February 24th, 1859. These 
two birds are marked ¢ and ¢, as determined by Salvin 
himself. There is a second similar pair, as ascertained by 
dissection, in the same collection from Rio Chiguate, Pacific 
coast of Guatemala, obtained in December 1861. It would 
appear therefore that in this species, contrary to the usual case 
in Chrysotis, the sexes are different in plumage. In the nearly 
allied C. xantholora the sexes are also different.—P. L. S. 
Death of Mr. Frank of Amsterdam.—The well-known 
dealer in natural-history objects, Mr. G. A. Frank, who for 
so many years has supplied many of the principal museums 
of Europe with choice specimens, died at Amsterdam on the 
24th of April last, in the 71st year of his age. His son, Mr. 
G. A. Frank, who has for some years been settled in London 
(14 Chalcot Crescent, N.W.), will, we believe, continue to 
carry on business in this city. 
Mr. Forbes’s Expedition to Brazil—Mr. W. A. Forbes, 
Prosector to the Zoological Society of London and Member 
of this Union, left England the end of last month for Per- 
nambuco, Brazil, on a three months’ collecting-expedition. 
He will keep principally along the line of the Recife and San- 
Francisco Railway, which seems likely to offer great facilities 
for the object he has m view. 
