Letters t Extracts, and Notes. 353 



List of other Oi-nithological Publications received. 



HowAKD, H. E. British Warblers. (Pt. 8. London, 1913.) 

 Mathews, G. M. The Birds of Australia. (Vol. iii. Pts. 4, 5, 1914.) 

 Salvadori, T., & Festa, E. Niiova specie di Frosone della Sardegna. 



(Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, xxix. No. 681, 1914.) 

 ScHALOW, H. iJber Calamolierpe brehmii Miiller. Uber das Brut- 



Vorkommen von Nucifraga caryocatactes caryocatactes L. in Thiir- 



ingen. (Journ. f. Orn. January 1914.) 

 Aquila. (Tom. xx. Budapest, 1913.) 

 The Auk. (Vol. xxxix. No. 1, 1914.) 



The Austral Avian Record. (Vol. ii. No. 4. London, 1914.) 

 Avicultural Magazine, (3rd Series, Vol. v. Nos. 3-5, 1914.) 

 Bird Lore. (Vol. xv. No. 6; Vol. xvi. No. 1, 1913.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. vii. Nos. 8-10, 1914.) 

 The Condor, (Vol. xvi. No. 1, 1914.) 

 The Emu. (Vol. xiii. pt. 3, 1914.) 

 Jouru. f. Ornith. (Vol. Ixii. Heft 1, 1914.) 

 Victoria Memorial Museum, Bulletin. (No. 1. Ottawa, 1913.) 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger. (Bd. xliii. Nos. 7-13, 1914.) 



XIX. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



The following letters liave been received : — 



SiRj — In the April number of ' The Ibis ' of last year, 

 you were kind enough to publish a few lines from me 

 expressing the belief that two eggs from the Tristram 

 Collection, taken on Grand Manau many years ago and 

 thought to be those of Passerculus princeps, '' must have 

 been laid by P. savanna.'''' Their recent describer, in a note 

 immediately following mine on the same page, dissents from 

 this opinion, maintaining that inasmuch as they ^' were 

 labelled and presumably identified by Mr. T. M. Brewer, 

 the well-known American ornithologist, and as Mr. Ridgway, 

 in his recent work on the 'Birds of North and Middle 

 America,' states that Passerculus princeps breeds on Sable 

 Island and other islands off Nova Scotia, there seems to be 

 no sufficient reason to alter or doubt the identification." 



Unfortunately for this contention it is, in reality, unsup- 

 ported by Mr, Ridg way's statement, which stands as follows : — 

 *' Breeding on Sable Island (and other islands ?) off Nova 



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