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Review of Dr. Finsch’s c Die Papageien.’ 
wrongly sexed skins in some museum, taking upon himself to 
contradict the definite statements of trustworthy field natu¬ 
ralists like those ” I have “ referred to, in regard to matters 
of which he can personally know nothing ” (t. c. p. 2). Would 
it not appear “ to indicate a tone of thought incompatible 
with the philosophical investigation of any branch of physical 
science” (/. c.) ? 
“ ‘ What the young birds are like is unfortunately never 
said/ Well, let Dr. Finsch hear what Captain Hutton says ” 
( t . c. p. 12). Dr. Finsch’s remark was absolutely true when 
he published it, and the plumage and colouring of the young 
birds remained undescribed until 1873, when Captain Hutton 
first published his account (t. c. p. 336), to which Mr. Hume 
now refers Dr. Finsch in 1874, without, however, indicating 
the source or the date, and thereby leaving the reader to infer 
that Dr. Finsch ought to have known it. 
Mr. Hume then notices a geographical error in this wise 
“ As for what Dr. Finsch can prove, about torquatus and cy< 
anocephalus , we shall see hereafter, in the mean time in regard 
to the present group of species, I would remark, that if Leith 
Adams really says he found any one of them common in the 
c Forest districts of Ladakh/ I will not contradict him, but I 
can only say I have been all over Ladakh, twice*, without 
being so fortunate as to meet with any Forest district, and 
that I never myself met with the large rose-ringed Paroquet 
in Ladakh . . . .” {t. c. pp. 12, 13). What Dr. Finsch does 
really make Leith Adams say is ee very common in all the forest 
districts of Cashmere and Ladakh ” (Papag. ii. p. 15). This 
is taken from Mr. Adams’s paperThe Birds of Cashmere and 
Ladakh” (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 169) ; and Dr. Finsch has inad¬ 
vertently added the words u and Ladakh ” to the phrase 
“ wooded slopes of the lesser ranges southward of Cashmere.” 
That Dr. Finsch was nodding at the time he made the quota¬ 
tion is true; but surely it was a very little nod and easily ex- 
* Does not Mr. Hume here rather hide his light under a bushel ? 
What, no further than Ladakh P The booksellers have recently enriched 
my library with a copy of a work entitled u Lahore to Yarkand, Hen¬ 
derson and Hume.” 
