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VOL. III. 



Letterpress to Vol. III., p. 6, species 179. Carduelis elegans,for part 60 (1877), read part 40 (1875). 

 „ „ p. 6, species 180. Chrysomitris citrinella, for parts 63, 64 (1877), read 



parts 43, 44 (1875). 

 Page 1, line 17. For It flight read Its flight. 



49. For Calamophilus biarmicus read Panurus biarmicus. 

 79, line 7. For Musvil-meise read Musvit-meise. 

 120, lines 22 and 23. For Parus borealis read Parus palustris. 

 125. For Siberian Marsh-Titmouse read Lapp Titmouse. Plate 112, for Scandinavian 



Titmouse read Lapp Titmouse. 

 176. Sitta rupicola, Blanf., proves on examination of a larger series to be a bad species; 



and this name will sink into a synonym of Sitta neumayeri. 

 183. Mr. Seebohm, who has lately been working out the Nuthatches, informs me that he 

 has, after an examination of a larger series than I had available when I wrote this 

 article, decided to separate the Eastern or Asiatic form, to which I refer in lines 

 34-39, specifically from the European bird ; and in this view I am now inclined to 

 agree with him. This being the case, the Eastern form will stand as Sitta syriaca, 

 Ehr., and the European bird as Sitta neumayeri, Michah., — Sitta tephronota, Sharpe 

 (referred to on p. 176), being a synonym of the Asiatic bird; and Sitta syriaca will 

 have to be expunged from the synonyms on p. 183, but Sitta rupicola, Blanf., will 

 have to be added. 



Sitta syriaca, Ehr., is found in Palestine, Syria (whence it was first described), 

 Turkestan, and Afghanistan. 

 295. Anthus seebohmi. Since the article on this species was published I have ascertained 

 that it is identical with Anthus gustavi, Swinh., under which name it will conse- 

 quently stand; and, as lately pointed out by Mr. Seebohm in his notes on the 

 ornithology of Siberia, it has since been found to have a very wide range, having 

 been met with on the Ob (Finsch and Prelim), the Yennesei (Seebohm), Lake Baikal 

 (Dybowski), Tschuski Land, north of Kamtchatka (Baron Meydell), Behring Isle 

 (Wossnessenshy), Batchian (Wallace), Manilla and Celebes (Bruggemann), Borneo 

 and Negros (Mus. Brit.). The synonymy of this species will therefore now be as 

 follows : — 



Anthus gustavi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 90, 273. 



Anthus batchianensis, G. E. Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 251, no. 3642 (1869). 

 Anthus seebohmi, mihi, B. of Eur. part xlv. (1875). 

 375. Lanius excubitor. Since the article on this species was written the Grey Shrikes 

 have been worked at most carefully by several authors ; and the amount of 

 literature added to the subject is by no means small. It is scarcely advisable here 

 to treat fully of the question as to how many of the various forms of the Grey 

 Shrike should be treated as species; for lately a vast number of skins of Grey 

 Shrikes from Asia have reached England, showing that there are not a few different 

 forms, some of which may possibly be treated as distinct species, and to treat the 



