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Letters, Announcements, fyc. 
able to avert this erasure, as the Norwich Museum has re¬ 
cently received from Mr. F. Finger, of Nagasaki, the gift of 
a typical specimen of B. maximus (sive ignavus), which was 
shot on the Goto Islands, a group about 50 miles W.S.W. of 
Nagasaki, and included in the south-western portion of the 
Japanese group. 
I am &c., 
J. II. Gurney. 
Northrepps Hall, Norwich. 
June 14, 1886. 
Sirs, —At page 367 supra , in a report on Dr. Finsch's 
and my paper on Birds from New Guinea, it was remarked, 
concerning Microdynamis parva of Salvadori, that “ the 
exact locality of the specimen is not stated.” I beg leave to 
remark that in our first paper on Birds from New Guinea 
(Paradiseidse), f Zeitschrift fur die gesammte Ornithologie/ 
1885, p. 372, it was stated, in a note, that all birds men¬ 
tioned by us without locality are from the Horseshoe 
Mountains (see map, supra, p. 238). This note has not 
been reproduced in the translation of our paper {supra, 
p. 240). 
Yours &c., 
Dresden Zoological Museum, A. B. Meyer. 
July 13th, 1886. 
[This is, no doubt, the case. But in our eyes “ locality ” 
is of such importance that it is advisable to state it distinctly, 
and not to leave it to be found out by reference to a foot¬ 
note in a former paper, which may be easily overlooked.— 
Edd.] 
Sirs, — I do not think that Ptilopus melanocephalus has 
yet been recorded from Borneo or its adjacent islands. I 
was ashore for a couple of hours on the island of Bangeuy 
at the end of last month, when one of my servants shot a 
male in full plumage. I am unable to say whether this 
bird is permanently located in Banguey, or whether the one 
