Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 113 
under an uncertainty of their being new. To each bird is 
affixed the date of its discovery. 
1. Ptiloskelos amherstii, Tickell, March 24, 1859 (supposed 
by Mr. Blyth to be the young of Huhua orientalis). 
2. Pellornium tickelli, Blyth, February 24, 1859. 
3. Turdinus guttatus, Tickell, March 2, 1859. 
4. T. brevicaudatus, Blyth, February 15, 1855. 
5. T. crispifrons, Blyth, January 8, 1855. 
6. Sibia picata, Tickell, February 28, 1859. (Syn. S. mela- 
noleuca, Blyth.) 
7. Pycnonotus nanus, Tickell, March 2, 1859. (Syn. Ixulus 
striatus, Blyth.) 
8. Abrornis superciliaris, Blyth, February 24, 1859. 
9. Buceros tickelli, Blyth, January 27, 1855. 
10. Garrulax strepitans, Tickell, November 15, 1855. 
11. G. poliogenys, Blyth, February 13, 1855. 
12. Pteruthius ceralatus, Tickell, February 14, 1855. 
13. Parus subviridis, Tickell, February 14, 1855. 
14. Pomatorhinus tickelli, Blyth, February 14, 1855. 
15. Phylloscopus viridipennis, Blyth, February 15, 1855. 
16. P. affinis, Tickell, November 29, 1854. 
17. Hypsipetes tickelli, Blyth, February 15, 1855. 
18. Arboricola chloropus, Tickell, February 8, 1859. (Syn. 
Tropicoperdix chloropus, Blyth.) 
19. A. brunneopectus, Tickell, February 11, 1855. 
Our East Indian field-ornithologists appear to occupy a very 
small space in your delightful periodical. But I hope to be 
permitted to contribute to its interesting pages, from time to 
time, the results of over thirty years' research into Indian orni¬ 
thology. Yours, &c., 
S. R. Tickell. 
Colchester, November 12, 1862. 
Sir, — I think all ornithologists are indebted to Lord Lilford 
for his paper on the Francolin in your last Number. 
I was quite aware, as I mentioned in my notice of the bird in 
my work, that F. vulgaris had become a rare bird in Europe. 
My words are, “ with the exception, however, of Sicily and 
