APPENDIX IV. 
Romsey, September 26, 1811. 
Dear Sir, 
I DO myself the pleasure of returning your birds, several of which I find 
curious, and so far as I know, not yet described. I have noticed this in the 
catalogue, referring for the most part, to my Index Ornithologicm. You 
would not do amiss by getting up Nos. 5, 8, 9, l4, 15, IS, 22, 29, 34? 35? 
42, 48, 50, 51, 55, 57; but the most rare are, in my opinion, 8, 18, 22,29, 
42, 48, 50, 51, 55, 57, and the last number most rare of all. Many in the 
list will be found in more than one museum ; though in ray own 1 have but 
few of them : ray specimen of No. 11, was met with in England; No. 16, I 
had from Senegal ; No. 20, from the Cape of Good Hope, and No. 31, 
from India. I have neither of your two Colys, but have the Coly-leuco- 
natos from the Cape of Good Hope. I have taken drawings from eight or 
nine ; the rest I had either figures of before, or can trace them sufficiently 
for my own use. 
I have marked No. 55, as Ardea Pondiceriana ; but if the figure in pi: 
enlum: 932, be looked at, the feet are in that plate cloven to the bottom ; 
whereas in your specimens they are webbed deeply, as in the avoset, 
with which genus it ought to have place, were it not for the singular con- 
struction of the bill ; on account of which, it can scarcely be ranked with 
the herons, 
Yours, &c. &c. 
JOHN LATHAM. 
1. Lanius, allied to Pie griesche silentieux Levail. Ois. pi. 74, f. 1. 2. 
Two specimens * (^Shot in Abyssinia.) 
2 J Q. Lanius Cubl: Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xx. One specimen. 
(^Abyssinia,) 
3, — ferrugineus, Ind. Orn, i. 762, or a variety. One specimen. 
(^Chelicut in Abyssinia,) 
4, allied to 3. {Chelicut.) 
* The remarks in italics are added by the author. 
