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Letters , Announcements , fyc. 
Lista das ayes colligidas pelo Sr. Serpa Pinto, no Ibo, em 1885. Por 
Jose Augusto de Sousa. Tom. cit. (Separate copies.)] 
The former is a list of some of the species (30 in number) 
collected by Senhors Capello and Ivens, between 11° 22' and 
15° 38' S. lat., and 23° 43' and 30° 2V E. long., during their 
well-known journey across the “ Dark Continent.” Most of 
the species are South-African, but Amauresthes fringilloides 
appears to have been found for the first time to the north of 
Zanzibar, and Musophaga rossce beyond the limit of the 
Province of Angola. From the river Coroca two species are 
added to the list. 
The latter paper contains a list of 23 species sent to the 
Lisbon Museum by the celebrated explorer Senhor Serpa 
Pinto, and principally collected between about 12° 25' S. 
lat., and 40° 40' E. long. Among the more interesting are 
Smithoy'nis capensis and Erythrocercus thomsoni , Shelley. 
95. Taczanowski on the Birds of Ussuria. 
[List© des Oiseaux re£us recemment du Sud-ouest du Pays Oussourien. 
Par L. Taczanowski. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1885, pp. 464-478.] 
This list contains remarks on 171 species obtained for the 
Warsaw Museum by MM. Jankowski and Kaiinowski; the 
majority from localities between 43° and 46° N. lat., with a 
few from Vladivostok, among the latter being an example 
of the Cinereous Vulture (Vultur monachus ), new to Eastern 
Siberia. Buphus coromandus is recorded for the first time 
from North China. 
L.— Letters , Announcements , fyc. 
We have received the following letters addressed to the 
Editors of f The Ibis : *— 
Sirs, —In f The Ibis/ 1884 (p. 42), Mr. Seebohm wrote, 
f<r it seems probable that the name of Bubo maximus must be 
erased from the list of Japan birds.” I am happy to be 
