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Letters , Announcements , fyc. 
The work will be issued in about ten parts, in 4to, each 
containing six plates, with corresponding letterpress. The 
first part will appear next September. The price of each 
part will be twelve florins. 
Yours, &c., 
Pelzeln. 
Sirs, —In my paper on Trachyphonus {antea, p. 109 ) there 
is a misprint, which I beg of you to allow me to correct. 
Under Tr. boehmi is given, as a locality, “ Abdul Gindi, (Mus. 
Paris) ” Now Abdul Gindi is the name of an Egyptian 
person, not of a locality. M. Oustalet informed me that the 
specimen in question was obtained from Abdul Gindi. 
Yours, &c., 
G. Hartlaub, 
Bremen, 20th April, 1886. 
74 Jermyn Street, St. James’s, 
May 17th, 1886. 
Sirs,- —I have lately returned from a pleasant two months' 
sojourn in Egypt and at Athens, during which a few orni¬ 
thological facts came under my notice which I think worth 
recording in f The Ibis. 5 I left Naples on 25th of January 
last by an Italian steamer bound for Malta. On the morn¬ 
ing of the 27th I found myself in the harbour of Catania, 
with a few hours to spend on shore. I went at once to the 
bird-market, and there saw no less than ten Purple Gallinules 
(Porphyrio cceruteus) exposed for sale, which the vendors told 
me came from the pantani , or marshes, a few miles to the 
south of Catania. About two hours later I went back to the 
market, before returning to the steamer, and found that two 
more Porphyrios had been brought in. I bought two of the 
best specimens for a franc each, took them with me to Malta, 
and there skinned them. 
After staying a week at Malta I went by P. & O. steamer 
to Port Said, and through the Canal to Suez. In the Canal 
