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fied by Prof. Baird according to the system prevailing in the 
United States, the locality of each specimen being given. 
None of the species appears to call for any special comment; 
but the list adds to our knowledge of the distribution of North - 
American birds, a subject which our Transatlantic brethren 
have long laboured at with great industry and success. 
51. Major Godwin-Austen’s List of Birds'from the Hills of 
the North-east Frontier of India. 
[Fifth List of Birds from the Hill Ranges of the North-east Frontier 
of India. By Major H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.G.S. &q. (J. A. S. B. 
xlv. pt. 2, p. 191.)] 
A list of the birds collected by officers of the Topographi¬ 
cal Survey of India in the Munipur and Naga hills, and by 
Major Godwin-Austen himself in the Khasi hills, is given in 
this paper, which adds another to the useful series of memoirs 
Major Godwin-Austen has published on the birds of these 
remote districts. Most of the new species obtained during 
these expeditions have already been described in this Journal 
(Ibis, 1875, p. 250 et seqq.) and elsewhere ; but others are 
characterized in this article. Thus we have a new Alcippe 
from the Naga hills allied to A. hueti of Pere David, and 
called A.fusca, and Neornis albiventris , a new Warbler from 
the Munipur valley, allied to N. assimilis, Hodgs. Three 
species are figured (plates v., vi., vii.), viz. Acridotheres al - 
bocincta, Sphenocichla roberti , and Pyctorhis altirostris. 
XXXIII.— Letters, Announcements, fyc. 
The following letters, addressed “ To the Editors of ‘ The 
Ibis/ ” have been received :— 
Sirs, —In 1875 the Asiatic Society of Bengal did me the 
honour of intrusting to me the task of editing the post¬ 
humous Catalogue of the Birds of Burma written by Mr. 
Blyth. While in no degree underrating the responsibility of 
the duty I was asked to perform, I accepted the trust with 
some confidence, because Mr. Blyth, not very long before 
