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Federated Malay States and those of Tring and South 

 Kensington, which have contributed towards the expenses of 

 the Expedition. 



Yours faithfully, 



C. BoDEN Kloss. 

 Korinchi, Sumatra, 

 March 21, 1914. 



P.S. — We have already obtained the rare Pitta (P. schnei- 

 deri) recently described by Hartert from the Toba District ; 

 Peloperdix rubriroslris, Chalcurus chalcurus ; a Serilophus 

 which has apparently not been recorded from the Sunda 

 Islands, Myophoneus castaneus, Chloropsis venusta, and Sto- 

 parola cervicrissa. 



Sir, — You may perhaps think it sufficiently interesting 

 to note that I watched, for half an hour or so, a pair of 

 Black Terns at Mitcham, Surrey, on the 2nd inst. 



Six of these birds arrived on April 11, but with the 

 exception of the two in question, passed on almost imme- 

 diately, and the remaining pair left on the 4th inst. 



One of the birds frequently sat on a stump in the centre 

 of the rush-grown pond. The other never alighted nor 

 attempted to swim, but continually hawked for insects, 

 occasionally dipping and touching the water after the manner 

 of the swallows. 



The flight was remarkably easy and noiseless, and no 

 sound was uttered. 



I am, 



Yours truly, 



Godfrey C. Lambert, M.B.O.U. 

 Woodcote, 

 Epsom, Surrej', 

 May 25, 1914. 



Sir, — May I be permitted to make a slight alteration in 

 a statement which I made in Part II. of my paper on my 

 Expedition to the Eastern Canary Islands. On page 232 

 in the last number of ' The Ibis,^ I gave a list of species and 

 subspecies which are confined almost, if not entirely, to the 



