414 Extracts from Correspondence , Announcements, fyc. 
Length 7fo inches; wing 4^-; tail l y L; tarse 1^ 0 . 
I think, on perusing the above, you will agree with me that 
we have at last discovered the Pitta nympha —a species so long 
established from a Japanese design, but one whose existence was 
seriously questioned by practical ornithologists. And to think 
that this Corean wonder should be first met with in the flesh in 
this barren island of Amoy ! 
As you will probably give publicity to these notes, I will add 
my remarks on dissecting its body :— 
(Esophagus about in. wide, contracting before the proven- 
triculus, which starts with a breadth of y A in., and gradually en¬ 
larges as it joins the stomach. The proven triculus measures y^m. 
and is smooth- coated. The stomach is heart-shaped, with stout 
lateral tendons, and broadly marked exteriorly with perpendicular 
rings. The epithelium was bright yellow, moveable and rugose; 
containing only the remains of one spotted field-bug. Intes¬ 
tines 15| in. long, and varying in thickness from Ag- in. to in., 
marked exteriorly with a sprinkling of hard granules, and having 
a large round nodule, j in. broad, about 4 inches from the anus. 
This latter is probably the result of disease. Cseca -/y in. long, 
ovate and adnate, the right one being 1-A- in., the left one 1A 0 in. 
from the anus. Ovary containing quite a bunch of small eggs. 
Yours, &c., 
Robert Swinhoe. 
Dr. Schlegel, Leyden Museum. 
Mr. Tristram writes to us, that in looking over his collections 
he finds that in his “ Catalogue of the Birds of the Sahara,” 
as given in the two preceding volumes of ‘ The Ibis/ he has 
accidentally omitted two very interesting species :— 
1. Cyanecula rubecula, of which he has two examples in winter 
plumage, one a female, the other with the sex undetermined. 
2. Anthus spinoletta, of which he has one specimen, shot, 
out of a small flock, in the marsh at the edge of the oasis of 
Laghouat in November 1856. He believes also that he saw a 
flock of this bird (if not of A. ohscurus) in January 1857, in the 
swamps near Tuggurt. 
Mr. Tristram also remarks,— 
“ Had I to rewrite my notes on the Larks of the Sahara, I do 
