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1875, having displayed considerable interest in Ornithology, 
and being the possessor of a noted collection of birds, which 
he had inherited from his father. The specimens of this 
collection were set up by Lead beater, and from him, in all 
probability, was purchased an egg of the Great Auk at a 
a price which in these days would seem ridiculous (from £\ 
to ^3, it is said, but accounts vary). Lord Malcolm, though 
very fond of birds, was not given to writing upon them, and 
his name does not appear among the contributors to our 
columns. 
XXXIL — Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 
We have received the following letters addressed to '^ The 
Editors '' :— 
Sirs, — I think that it will not be without interest to the 
readers of ' The Ibis ' to know that H.M. Vittorio Emanuele, 
our present King, has disposed of the ornithological 
collection that his grandfather, Vittorio Emanuele IL, put 
together at Mandria, not far from Turin. The collection 
had been removed to the Castle of Moncalieri, and quite 
recently it was divided between the Museum of Turin and 
that of Rome. The birds allotted to the latter museum 
include the well-known specimen of Alca impennis, which 
Victor Emanuel, the grandfather, had bought from the collec- 
tion of Pastor Brehm. The series presented to the Museum 
of Turin contains, among other rarities, a specimen of 
Cerioimis caboti, which has been the subject of a small paper 
of mine published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London ■' for 1871 (pp. 495-496) ; but the rarest 
bird is a Garrulus lidthi, of which only three specimens are 
known, and which I have mentioned in another paper of 
mine, '' Nota intorno al Garrulus lidthii " (Atti R. Ac. Sc. 
Tor. vii. 1872, pp. 473-476). Of this species two living 
specimens were brought from Japan and given to King 
Victor Emanuel. It would be interesting to know what 
has become of the second specimen, which, on its sale at 
