Letters , Extracts, and Notes , 
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The bird was stated to be from Japan, but was sought for 
in vain by all subsequent collectors until 1904, when, as 
announced in this journal*, it was rediscovered in one of 
the islands of the Loochoo group by the collectors of 
Mr. Alan Owston, of Yokohama. 
New Birds at the Zoological Society’s Gardens. —In the 
Report of the Council read at the Anniversary Meeting 
of the Zoological Society on April 29th, it was stated 
that living examples of the following twelve species new to the 
Collection had been received during the year 1909 :— 
Pomatorhinus erythrogenys (from India), Crypsorhina varians 
(from Java ), Haematopus palliatus (from Jamaica), Ostinops 
viridis (from Venezuela), Manucodia atra (from the Am 
Islands), Melanerpes superciliaris (from Cuba), Trachyphonus 
cafer (from South Africa), Eos cyanogenis, Trichoglossus 
nigrigularis , and Aprosmictus cyanopterus (from New Guinea), 
Agapornis nigrigenis (from Rhodesia), and Speotyto hypogcea 
(from Venezuela). 
New “ British Birds.” —In f British Birds 9 for April last 
three additions to our avifauna are announced— Locustella 
lanceolata , Totanus stagnatilis , and Lanius senator hadius. 
Tetanus stagnatilis is a well-known species on the Con¬ 
tinent, but no certainly authenticated British specimen 
existed in any collection. Lanius senator hadius is a 
mere sub-species of the Woodchat ( Lanius pomeranus), 
which, until lately, was believed to be found only in Corsica 
and Sardinia. 
But Locustella lanceolata is quite a good species, nearly 
allied to our Grasshopper Warbler (L. ncevia). It is remark¬ 
able that when Seebohm wrote the fifth volume of the 
f Catalogue of Birds * in 1881 there was not a single 
example of this bird in the British Museum. Now, we 
are glad to say, there are in the National Collection upwards 
* ‘Ibis,’ 1905, p. 288. 
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