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author has precluded a fuller treatment of this part of the subject. In- 

 some cases a greater accuracy might perhaps have been expected. For 

 instance, it is stated (p. 56) of the Tawny Pipit that the " first recorded 

 example was taken near Brighton in 1858, and a dozen or more have 

 since been obtained there." As a matter of fact, Mr. Borrer has ac- 

 counted for no fewer than 19 of these birds from that part of the county. 

 Again, the Serin is stated (p. 71) to have occurred seven or eight times 

 in Sussex, whereas we have failed to find more than five records. 



We conclude as we began, by heartily recommending the volume to- 



the notice of ornithologists. 



W. C. J. K. B. 



My reviewer's fault-findings are so few in number and so much the 

 reverse of hostile, that I do not wish to let it seem that I am opposing 

 his criticism, and yet I cannot omit to add a few words. In the first 

 place I must say that the absence of Coues' or the Hoary Redpoll from 

 my list was a pure accident. Following the precedent in the new A.O.TJ. 

 " Check List," I disallow separate rank to this closely-allied form of 

 Cannabina hornemanni, and it should therefore have appeared (p. 79) as 

 96a, C. hornemanni exilipes (Coues). I did not discover the omission 

 until too late for correction; readers can, however, easily insert in pencil. 

 0. cryptoleucura was added when the contingent portion of the work was 

 actually in type, and to have given further particulars was found to be 

 an impossibility. As to the Dartford Warbler's supposed nesting in North 

 Yorkshire, I merely mentioned that I believed that it had done so. The 

 White-spotted Bluethroat appears as C. wolfi in the B.O.U. List, and I 

 allowed this name to stand simply because it has the right of priority if 

 the entirely blue-throated bird is not separated from the white-spotted form, 

 but I am by no means sure, by the way, that it should be regarded as 

 not separable. I might take this opportunity of drawing attention to the 

 following misprints: — Page 22, line 26, for "north-west" read "south- 

 west"; page 78, lines 19 and 24, and page 79, lines 12 and 13, for "A" 

 read " C" ; page 84, line 22, for "(1868)" read "(1869)"; page 161, 

 line 25, for "Rednecked" read " Ringnecked " ; page 172, line 23, for 

 "3" read "4"; page 210, line 19, for "51a" read "50a." Mr. Arm- 

 strong has pointed out that another example of the Whiskered Tern. 

 (No. 332) was shot at Friar's Carse, Dumfriesshire, May 28th, 1894. 



H. K. S. 



In Nature Notes for July, Mr. Eldon Pratt reports a Golden Oriole at. 

 Holmbury Hill, near Abinger, Surrey, on May 24th last. 



