THE NIDOLOGIST 25 
name and address of the party who collected 
these sets of Little Brown Crane for me. And 
another season, I will get my collector to send me 
a specimen of the bird as well as the eggs to make 
doubly sure. 
From the above you will see there is not the 
slightest truth in Mr. Shufeldt’s statement, when 
he says, ‘‘I am perfectly safe in saying that the 
two eggs never were found in a nest made of 
rushes on a sandy knoll in the marsh, at Crescent 
Lake, Assiniboia,but were doubtless purchased at 
a very moderate sum from some European dealer 
by Mr. W. Raine, and sold for a good stiff price 
to Mr. W. A. Davidson, Detroit.” 
If you will kindly publish the above letter in 
your next issue, exonerating Mr. Raine from the 
charges made against him by Mr. Shufeldt, you 
will oblige me greatly. I remain, your truly, 
EDRICK P. RIPPON, 
Pres. Toronto Ento. Society. 
RAINE’S LATEST. 
TORONTO, Noy. 3, (896 
Mr. Taytor, S77:—I have not yet received THE 
NIpoLocisT containing Prof. Macoun’s and Mr. 
Rippon’s letters vindicating me of the charges 
made against me by Shufeldt. If you do not 
intend publishing them let me know, astwo other 
Oological magazines have promised to print these 
letters if you won't. 
Some prominent Oologists have written me 
after reading the photos of letters I have sent out, 
and they say they will protest against your con- 
duct if you don’t give me fair play. I have now 
some forty ietters !1rom well known Oologists 
sympathizing with me, and some of these letters 
are not verv complimentarv to you. You will 
find you made a mistake to turn on me as you did 
without provocation. 
You listened to Shufeldt and others who have 
always been bigoted against me, and you must 
admit that I have always proved that most of the 
charges are false, and if you have any sense of 
honor you will at once withdraw what you have 
said. 
You must admit that you yourself personally 
know nothing against me, and you just repeat 
what a few others have said against me. 
When you started up THE Nip I helped you all 
I could, and do you honestly think you are justified 
in treating me you have done? 
Yours, etc., W. RAINE. 
RAINEISM:—A POINT IN EXPLANATION. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPT. 5, 1896. 
Those who read in the August (1896) number 
of THE NIpOLOGIsT my remarks upon Raineism 
may remember what I said in a foot-note in that 
communication in regard to Mr. Hermann Rolle 
of Berlin, Germany, selling eggs of Grus virgo to 
Mr. Walter Raine of Toronto, Canada. Now, 
when I wrote to Mr. Rolle for the information I 
desired, Mr. Raine’s name was not mentioned in 
my letter. I simply informed Mr. Rolle that I 
was paying some attention to the Nidology of the 
Cranes in this country, and asked him to whom 
he had sold eggs of Grus virgo, either in the 
United States or Canada. It came from him 
entirely unsolicited that he had sold them to 
W. Kaine of Toronto, Canada. It is needless to 
say here that nothing in Mr, Rolle’s reply to 
me in any way connects him with the fraudulent 
practices now known to have been carried on hy 
the notorious Canadian above mentioned, and it 
is perfectly safe to say that he, Mr. Rolle, is in 
no way party to them. 
R. W. SHUFELDT. 
{Publications for review should be sent to Dr. R. W. SHuF- 
ELDT, Associate in Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 
ington, D. C.] 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
RICHMOND, CHAS. W.: ‘‘Description of a New Spe- 
cies of Ant Thrush from Nicaragua.’’ Proc. US, 
Nat. Museum. Vol. XVIII. No. 1ogo, 1896. pp. 
625-626. (From the Museum.) 
RICHMOND, CHAS. W.: ‘‘Partial List of Birds Col- 
lected at Alta Mi a, Mexico, by Mr. Frank B. Arm- 
strong.” Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum. Vol. XVIII. 
No. 1091, 1896. pp. 627-632. (From the Museum ) 
ROBINSON, WirT: ‘An Annotated List of Birds 
Observed on Margarita Island, and at Guanta and 
Laguayra, Venezuela” Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum. 
Vol. NVIIL. No. 1093, 1896. pp. 649-685. PI. 
XXNIIT. (From the Museum.) 
HARTERT, ERNST: ‘‘Notes on Some Species of the 
Families Cypselida, Caprimulgide, and Podargide, 
with Remarks on Subspecific Forms and their Nom- 
enclature.’’ Ibis, (London) July 1896, Coi. Plates 
VI and VII. pp. 362-376. (From the author.) 
While collecting in Nicaragua during the year 1892, 
Mr. Richmond of the Ornithological Department of the 
U.S. National Museum, obtained several specimens of 
an Ant Thrush of the genus Phlegopsis. These, 
when compared with Panama examples of P. mac- 
leaunani, were found to be quite aberrant in coloration 
and proved conclusively the distinctness of the Nicara- 
guan bird, which Mr. Richmond now proposes the 
name or Philegopsis saturata for, and gives its tech- 
nical description in the paper cited in the list above. 
During the winter of 1894-95 Mr. Frank Armstrong 
collected birds at Alta Mira, a small town not far from 
Lampico, on the east coast of Mexico. From time to 
time, Mr, Armstrong sent representatives of this col- 
lection from the field of his labors to the US. 
National Museum for identification, and this partial 
list has been also published by Mr. Richmord for the 
information of those interested in Mexican Ornithology 
or the east ccast. Although no new species aie 
described, not a few interesting forms are recorded. 
A contribution of yet more importance is the 
“Annotated List of Birds Observed on the Island of 
Margarita, and at Guanta and Laguarita, Venezuela, ” 
by Robinson. Lieutenant Wirt Robinson of the 
Fourth U. S. Artillery has already done some very 
excellent Ornithological work in South America and 
elsewhere, and the present list annotated as it is by 
Mr. Chas. W. Richmond, contains a great many inter- 
esting facts In the first place, this paper demonstrates 
above all else what may be accomplished along such 
lines in a remarkable short space of time, and without 
