118 Letters , Extracts from Correspondence , Announcements, fyc. 
His time of collecting would extend from November to March 
or April. This is, of course, out of the question at present; but 
in a few days I am going to send him <grTOO, to see what he can 
get me for that: I do not expect much; but, f nothing venture, 
nothing have.-’ " 
“ Nov. 2 , 1860. 
“I am not despairing yet about Dodo's bones; I saw some 
that were found in a cavern last week. The finder, Dr. Ayres, 
assures me that they are those of the Rodriguez bird, and not 
the Mauritian Dodo: he intends to give them to the British 
Museum. We are to have a regular search in the cavern the 
first opportunity. What is curious, is that with them he found 
Deers' teeth, as well as Reptiles', and some other Bird's bones, 
which latter were so brittle he could not preserve them." 
In our next Number we hope to be able to give some notes of 
Mr. E. Newton's, relating to his short sojourn at Savanne. 
Mr. Wallace's collections from Amboyna and Ceram have 
arri ved in England. The greatest novelty in them is a beautiful 
new Basilornis with an erect crest, making the second of the 
genus. Other species of interest are Lorius domicella , Eos rubra , 
Trichophorus flavicaudus, and Tanysiptera dea (?). 
Mr. Wallace's latest letters, dated from Ceram, in June last, 
speak of the probability of his return to England being not long 
delayed. He had been much disappointed with the results of 
an expedition to the northern part of the island, and was then 
intending to go to Mysol, which was expected to prove a good 
locality. _ 
Mr, Edward Hearle Rodd informs us that a good male spe¬ 
cimen of the Spotted Eagle (. Aquila ncevia), with the elliptical 
spots on the wing-coverts, and scapularies well marked, was shot 
on the 4th of December, in the parish of Northhill in the eastern 
part of Cornwall. The occurrence is also mentioned in the 
f Times' of December 12th. This bird has only once, we believe, 
occurred previously in the British Islands, namely, in Ireland, in 
1845, as recorded in the first Supplement to Yarrell's British 
Birds (p. 11) and other publications. 
