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Letters, Extracts, Notices, fyc. 
the price. Very often one living at such a distance from 
London as I do has to write home for the price before 
knowing whether the work in question will come within the 
compass of his purse, thus wasting at least four months, 
which would be saved if the prices of books were appended to 
the notices. I may say that Colonial booksellers do not 
import technical books, for which there is a small sale, unless 
specially ordered. 
Trusting you will forgive me for troubling you with this 
suggestion. 
Yours &c., 
George Hurst, M.B. 
Bathurst, N.S.W., 
29th January, 1900. 
[We have received other communications to the same 
effect, and when the new series commences it is probable 
that the Editors will endeavour to meet the wishes thus 
expressed. But it must be recollected that the separate 
copies which abound in ornithological literature are not 
usually on sale, and cannot be priced.— Edd.] 
Sirs,— On May 11th, 1900, Mr. George Bristow of this 
town asked me to examine a small Warbler which had been 
shot the day before and sent to him, along with some other 
small birds, from Ninfield, Sussex. On handling this bird 
“ in the flesh,” I at once suspected it to be the Melodious 
Warbler, Hypolais polyglotta (Vieill.), and shortly afterwards, 
on taking Mr. Ernst Hartert to view the specimen, he agreed 
with me in referring it to that species. Mr. Hartert was 
able to match it with examples of H . polyglotta from the 
south of France. More recently, Mr. Howard Saunders 
has examined the bird, and writes that he is quite satisfied 
that it has been rightly identified. It proved on dissection 
to be a male. 
The present is the second record of the undoubted occur¬ 
rence of H. f)olyglotta in the British Islands. Some remarks 
upon the range and distinctive features of the species will be 
found in f The Ibis/ 1897, pp. 627, 628. 
