308 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 
cies of British birds whose eggs have been discovered since the 
3rd edition of Hewitson was published; and these were stated 
to be at least eight in number, in ‘ The Ibis ’ for October 1859. 
List of Birds occurring in the ‘Zoologist 3 List, hut not mentioned 
in Hewitson 3 s 3rd edition, or ‘ The Ibis 3 List of Desiderata. 
1. Greenland Falcon. 
2. Rufous Sedge Warbler. 
3. Bohemian Waxwing. 
4. American Cuckoo. 
5. Belted Kingfisher. 
6. Purple Martin. 
7. Passenger Pigeon. 
8. Sand Grouse. 
9. Barbary Partridge. 
10. Cream-coloured Courser. 
11. Andalusian Hemipode. 
12. Little Egret. 
13. Buff-backed Heron. 
14. Squacco Heron. 
15. American Bittern. 
16. Yellow-shanks Sandpiper. 
1 7- Bartram’s Sandpiper. 
18. Sabine’s Snipe. 
19. North American Stint. 
24. Red-crested Duck. 
25. Paget’s Pochard. 
26. Smew. 
27. Hooded Merganser. 
28. Ringed Guillemot. 
29. Swift Tern. 
30. Sooty Tern. 
31. White-winged Black Tern. 
32. Masked Gull. 
33. Laughing Gull. 
34. Dusky Shearwater. 
Mr. Yarrell. 
35. American Mottled Owl. 
36. Red-winged Starling. 
37. Great Spotted Cuckoo. 
38. Virginian Quail. 
39. American Scaup. 
20. Mate Swan. 
21. Polish Swan. 
22. Bimaculated Duck. 
23. Surf Scoter. 
In *Ibis* 
40. Serine Finch. 
41. American Meadow Starling. 
Now, Sir, if you, or any of your valued contributors, will 
inform me, in the next Number of 'The Ibis/ or in any other 
way, how many of the forty-one species enumerated above ought 
to be considered British, and at the same time how many of the 
forty-one species have had their eggs discovered since the 3rd 
edition of Hewitson was published, I shall feel greatly obliged. 
I may add, in conclusion, that I think ' The Ibis 3 List of 
Desiderata is capable of a little legitimate enlargement. Take, 
for instance, Sabine's Snipe, which certainly, as I believe, has 
undoubted claims to rank as a British bird, and, so far as I 
know, the egg of which has not yet been obtained. Neverthe¬ 
less this bird, which “does not seem to have fallen into the hands 
