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Letters , Announcements , fyc. 
principal recipients of them, and it is time we should have the 
credit of giving as well as taking. 
XXXIV.— Letters , Announcements, §*c. 
The following letters, addressed “ To the Editor of ‘ The Ibis/ ” 
have been received :— 
Dobroyde, New South Wales, 
24th May, 1866. 
Sir,—I have just had the opportunity of examining a fine 
specimen of that rare bird, Pycnoptilus floccosus, Gould, which 
has been forwarded to Mr. Krefft of the Australian Museum, 
from South Australia. The label attached to the skin states 
that it was obtained on the Lower Murray River. 
Mr. Gould’s specimen, hitherto I believe considered unique, 
was supposed to have been obtained on the upper part of the 
Murrumbidgee (P. Z. S. 1850, p. 95). Should this supposition 
be correct, it shows that this curious form has by no means a 
very limited range. Had I been aware of the presumed exist¬ 
ence of Pycnoptilus previously to my recent visit to that river, 
I might have obtained some information as to its habits; on my 
return thither, however, I will not neglect the subject. 
I am, &c., 
Edward P. Ramsay. 
Simla, 15 th June, 1866. 
Sir, —Colonel Tytler has given me some information re¬ 
specting the animals introduced by him into the Andaman 
Islands, when Superintendent there, the publication of which 
in ‘ The Ibis ’ may prevent confusion hereafter arising from the 
addition of species merely acclimatized to those indigenous to 
the islands. 
With regard to birds, he introduced some six or seven of the 
Common Calcutta Crow, Corvus splendens, of which only two 
appear to have survived [anted, p. 220]. 
Acridotheres tristis from Calcutta and A. fuscus from Bur- 
mah ; some four or five of each were imported. Both these 
species have bred freely, and are now abundant. 
Passer montanus from Moulmein and P. indicus from Cal- 
