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Letters, Annomicements, ^c. 
West Wickham, Kent, 
Sept. 14, 1878. 
Sirs, —In Messrs. Blaldston and Pryer^s list of the birds 
of Japan, published in the July number of ‘^The Ibis^ for 
the present year (pp. 209-250), but two species of Garrulus, 
G. brandti and G. japonicus, are recorded as being natives 
of Japan. To these Garrulus lidthi of Bonaparte (P. Z. S. 
1850, p. 80, t. xvii.) should certainly be added; for though 
for a long time its exact patria was uncertain, yet now there 
can be little doubt {conf. Count SalvadorPs observations in 
Atti Ace. Beale Tor. vii. pp. 473-476 [1872], duly noticed in 
^The Ibis’ [1873, p. 478] and ^Zoological Becord ’ [1872, 
p. 53]) that Japan is the true habitat of this fine Jay. I 
believe, however, that the exact island or islands where it 
occurs have yet to be ascertained. 
I am, yours &c., 
__; W. A. Forbes. 
The Bremen Museum. —Dr. Finsch has, as many of our 
readers will regret to hear, resigned the Curatorship of the 
Bremen Museum, which he has held for a period of fifteen 
years, in order to undertake a scientific mission to the Pacific. 
Dr. Finsch will leave Europe for San Francisco and Honolulu 
as soon as the publication of the results of the North-German 
Siberian Expedition are completed. He is succeeded at 
Bremen by Dr. Ludwig, lately Assistant in the Zoological 
Museum of Gottingen. 
Carusos ^ Zoologischer Anzeiger’ —We beg leave to call the 
attention of our readers to the new serial which Prof. J. 
Victor Cams, of Leipzig, is now bringing out under this name. 
The ^Zoologischer Anzeiger"’ gives the titles of all newly 
published works on zoology, as also of papers published in 
periodicals, and thus forms a kind of sequel to the well-known 
Bibliotheca Zoologise ’ of Cams and Engelmann. Short sci¬ 
entific communications and other notices are also inserted, as 
likewise lists of the names and addresses of the occupants of 
official posts in Museums, Universities, and other scientific 
institutions. Four numbers are already issued. 
