370 Letters, Extracts from Cori'espondence, Notices, §c. 
P. 20, No. 66. Buteo rufiventer, Jerdon, is referred by Mr. 
Gurney to B. drtensis of the f Exploration de FAlgerie* ( vide 
Ibis, 1862, p. 362). I have seen but one Nilgiri specimen, 
which is in the Calcutta Museum. This might well pass for one 
of the many individual varieties of B. vulgaris, and numerous 
examples from the N.W. Himalaya, several of which are in the 
same collection, I consider to be unmistakeably B. vulgaris . 
P. 31. Is not Hemerodromus identical in form with Cursorius 
bicinctus, to which the generic name Rhinoptihs was given by 
Strickland ? 
P. 33. To the Arabic, Prench, and Latin names for the 
“ Herodias bubulcus 33 add the Hindustani appellation Gai Bogla 
(literally “Cow Heron 33 ), corrupted into caboga by Pennant, 
unde Ardea caboga . 
P. 212. Prof. SchlegePs idea of the merely seasonal appear¬ 
ance of the occipital crest in Spizaetus is altogether a mistake. 
Neither is the crest of these birds characteristic of any particular 
age. 
P. 217. Mr. Swinhoe fancies that I had only compared his 
“Scops semitorques 33 from Foochow with Himalayan specimens 
of Scops lempiji . There are numerous examples of this bird in 
the Calcutta Museum from S. India, and also from Malacca. 
These exhibit slight local distinctions which are difficult to under¬ 
stand—equally great with any presented by the Foochow bird. 
E. Blyth. 
Brigmeston House, near Amesbury, Wilts, 
April 30th, 1863, 
It will no doubt be in the recollection of some of our readers, 
that in our first volume (Ibis, 1859, p. 415) we announced that 
the late Mr. J. D. Salmon had bequeathed his valuable cabinet of 
Eggs to the Linnean Society, and we expressed a hope that it 
would be there preserved intact. Our information has proved to 
be correct ; but the result of the affair has, unfortunately, turned 
out very different from what we anticipated. It was intimated 
to the Council of the Society, shortly after that gentlemans death 
(which took place on the 5th August, 1859), that the bequest 
was conditional, and the stipulations required by his admini- 
