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Letters , Extracts , and Notes. 
Sirs, —Some time ago Mr. Eagle Clarke took to Tring 
tlie wing of a small species of Fhylloscopus in order to 
identify the bird to which it belonged, but there was no 
species represented in the Tring Museum with wdiicli it 
could be compared. I have several times told Mr. Eagle 
Clarke that I w r as myself personally satisfied that I had 
diagnosed it correctly as belonging to the rare P. neglectus 
of Hume, which that ornithologist found in Cashmere. I 
have the other wing here. It absolutely agrees in the 
formula of the wing-pattern with Mr. H. E. Dresser's 
formula given in his f Birds of the Eastern Palsearctic 
Region 9 (p. 98). The specimen of which these are the 
wings was shot in Tiree by Mr. Peter Anderson and 
sent in the flesh to me. But the Post Office stamper had 
utterly destroyed it, crushing in both head and most of 
the back, whilst part of the tail-feathers had been shot away. 
Only the wings were saved. The feathers of the lower back 
shewed a dusky broivnish olive—not greenish olive . In the 
crushed head there was just the suspicion of a pale super¬ 
ciliary streak. There are no wing-bars. 
Should my diagnosis, from the wing alone, be correct, 
I think I may claim to have here recorded the first oc¬ 
currence of this species in Britain, and perhaps its first 
occurrence in Europe. The only specimens known to me 
are Hume’s own specimens in the British Museum, and 
Dresser’s, now in the Manchester Museum. Mr. T. 
Davidson—of Edinburgh—tells me that he has the eggs, 
but never obtained a specimen of the bird. I fancy that 
I once possessed a specimen, but whence it came I cannot 
now' recollect. 
I am, Sirs, 
Yours &c., 
J. A. Harvie-Brown. 
Dunipace House, 
Larbert, N.B., 
17tli June, 1911. 
