166 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Vauchee a. Observations sur quelques Bartavelles du Bassin du 



Tessin. (Boll. Soc. Ticinese Sci. Nat., Anno viii. 1912.) 

 Annals of the Cyprus Nat. Hist. Soc. (No. 4, 1912-13. Nicosia, 



1913.) 

 The Austral Avian Record. (Vol. ii. Nos. 2, 3. London, 1913.) 

 Avicultural Magazine. (3rd Series, Vol. v. Nos. 1, 2, 1913.) 

 Bird Notes. (New Series, Vol. iv. Nos. 10-12, 1913.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. vii. Nos. 5-7, 1913.) 

 Bull. Brit. Oru. Club. (No. cxc. 1913.) 

 The Condor. (Vol. xv. No. 5, 1913.) 

 The Emu. (Vol. xiii. pt. 2, 1913.) 

 Le Gerfaut. Revue Beige d'Ornithologie. (3rd Annoe, No. 10. 



Bruxelles, 1913.) 

 Irish Naturalist. (Vol. xxii. Nos. 10-12, 1913.;) 

 Messager Ornithologique. (No. 3. Moscow, 1913.) 

 Die Schwalbe. Bericht des Komitees fiir Ornithologiscbe Beobachtungs- 



Stationen in Osterreich, (Neue Folge iii. 1912-13. Wien, 1913.) 

 The Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 22-24, 1913.) 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger. (Bd. xlii. Nos. 11-13; Bd. xliii. Nos. 1-6, 



1913.) 



VII. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



We have received the following letters addressed " to the 

 Editor '' :— 



Sir, — Might I bring the following interesting occurrence 

 of the Baikal Teal \_Nettion formosum (Gecrgi)] to your 

 notice. During my stay in Malta last spring I made the 

 acquaintance of a local ornithologist, Despott by name. In 

 his collection of birds I was rather surprised to discover a 

 beautiful example of the Baikal Teal, and on enquiring into 

 its history I learned the following facts : — • 



A local sportsman^ Fidele Caruaua by name, on the 16th 

 of April, 1913, shot one of three ducks of this species which 

 he discovered swimming alone in St. George's Bay, Birzeb- 

 bugia, Malta. As its identity puzzled him he brought the 



