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whether A. magnirostris is the same as the Arakan species, 
my collection being packed up. 
Besides several birds to which are given distinctive titles 
in this number, by Mr. Hume, “ if really new,” or “ if con¬ 
sidered distinct,” &c., JEthopyga sanguinipectus, Walden 
(Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xv. p. 400, 1875, & B. Burma, 
no. 494), receives the additional title of AE. waldeni ; and a 
bird well known to ornithologists, certainly to all those who 
consult the ordinary sources of reference before proceeding 
to give a new title, Turdus sibiricus, Pallas (1776), finds a 
place among the “ if really new ” novelties, and in its old 
age receives the title of Turdulus davisoni, Hume. Mr. 
Davison lately obtained it in Tenasserim, whence I also have 
received it from Mr. Limborg, labelled davisoni, Hume.” 
In March 1874, Mr. Wardlaw Eamsay found it in Karen-nee, 
as already mentioned by me (Blyth, B. Burma, no. 252) and 
by Mr. Dresser (in his ‘Birds of Europe ’). In the last-named 
work it is well figured, as it had already been in Gould^s ‘Birds 
of Europe/ and again in his ‘ Birds of Great Britain/ as like¬ 
wise by Schlegel in the ‘ Fauna Japonica.” 
Yours, &c., 
Tweeddale. 
Chislelmrst, July 17, 1877. 
Sirs, —In the July number of ‘ The Ibis/ in the remarks 
upon the first part of my monograph of the Bucerotidse, now 
in course of publication, you object to the names in the ‘ Spe¬ 
cimen Faunulse Indicse/ given in the ‘Indische Zoologie^ of 
Forster, because he was not the author, and ask if they must 
be necessarily adopted—or, to be absolutely correct, if Khi- 
noplax vigil, the name given to the Helmeted Hornbill, must 
be accepted. It is true that Pennant is stated to be the 
author ; and he may have produced an English version; but 
he never wrote a line of the work as we see it in Forster’s 
edition; and I derive my authority for this statement from 
Pennant himself. In the second edition of his ‘Indian Zoo¬ 
logy / printed by Henry Hughs for Robert Faulder, London, 
1790, Pennant says that this “work, or rather fragment” 
