386 Lettersj Announcements, ^c. 
Swinhoe^s last article upon his Birds from Hakodate Ibis/ 
1876, p. 330) 
331. Hirundo americana?, from Kamtchatka, line 13, 
read vent for neck.^^ As this specimen has the whole under¬ 
parts bright chestnut with a dark breast-collar, am I not right 
in considering it the American bird ? 
P. 331. Ceryle rudis. A mistake. I sent Swinhoe a spe¬ 
cimen of it. If you can find this, please see if it is not H. 
coromanda. It agrees with the ^ Fauna-Japonica ^ figure of 
H, coromanda major. 
P. 333. Schoeniclus pallasi is also a mistake, I believe. As 
far as I can find out, we have only S. pyrrhulinus, Swinhoe. 
P. 333. Uragus sibiricus also does not stand. Swinhoe, 
more recently (j Ibis,^ 1877, p. 145), has made this bird out 
to be Carpodacus roseus. 
P. 334. The note concerning Tringa damacensis was in¬ 
tended to refer to Wiynchcea hengalensis. 
Rediscovery of Polyplectron emphanes.—The discovery by 
Mr. Everett (Lord Tweeddale^s collector) of the true home of 
Polyplectron emphanes"^, in the Island of Palawan, which was 
announced at a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, is 
of much interest, as, though this fine bird has been known for 
the last fifty years, its true patria has remained a mystery. 
We may even hope to ascertain before long the locality of 
Pavo nigripennis, a bird found in many of our farmyards, but 
of which the original sedes is a problem yet unsolved. 
Proposed B.O.U. List of British Birds. —At their recent 
annual general meeting, the members of the British Orni¬ 
thologists' Union appointed a Committee to draw up a list 
of British birds, according to the most approved principles 
of modern nomenclature. The Committee have already held 
* Temminck, who was no classical scholar, writes this name 
phanum.^* But the Grreek being ipchavrji, neuter ifx(f)av€s, the correspond¬ 
ing Latin term should be emphanes, unless it may be supposed to be 
the neuter of €p<l>aiva>p, when “ emphcenon ” would be orthographically 
correct. 
