WCP2033

Letter (WCP2033.1923)

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6 Tenterden Street

Hanover Square

14 April 80

Dear Mr. Wallace

Your map is in the main right —

G. glandarius scarcely goes so far north as you have made it. I should put its northern limit at 64° in Scandinavia & 62° in the Urals — but I have a skin from Archangel.

G. bispecularis & G. sinensis are so closely allied as to be scarcely more than local races of each other —

The same may be said of G. krynicki & G. atricapillus

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G. taivanus, of which I have a skin in a good species, with black nasal plumes —

I have also a skin of G. lanceolatus which is the most distinct of all.

G. hyrcanus I have not seen — It appears to be nearest to G. glandarius but to be fairly separable.

G. krynicki — I much doubt its being found west of Constantinople. Danford1 & Havie-Brown2 found only G. glandarius in Transylavania.

Yours truly | Henry Seebohm3 [signature]

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Danford, Charles George (1843-1928). Lawyer and ornithologist.
Harvie-Brown, John Alexander (1844-1916). Scottish ornothologist and naturalist.
Seebohm, Henry (1832-1895). Ornithologist, traveller and steel manufacturer.

Please cite as “WCP2033,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2033