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Parkstone, Dorset

March 11th 1891

My dear Mr Cockerell

Many thanks for the notes as to Java genera of birds. It enables ^me to put that passage quite straight. But I have to bother you again. In "Ibis"¹ I find a reference to a List of Javan Birds by Vorderman² in Natuurk[undig]. Tijds[schrift]. v[oor]. Ned[erlandsch]. Ind[ië].³ Deel⁴ XLIV. Adf[eling][?]⁵. 3. No doubt it is in the Zool[ogical] Soc[iety]. & I should be obliged if you will just look at it & see the number of species of land-birds, and the number of peculiar species. If he does not give this last item, then the number of new species be describes will do, as I had the number of pec[uliar]. species [2] (40) in my first edition. After which I hope I need not trouble you more, till we come to proofs.

Snow here unprecedented, — and in Devonshire it seems almost equal to the "Lorna Doone" snow Storm.

Yours very truly | Alfred R Wallace [signature]

[3]

Garrulus Lidthi⁶

R. Swinhoe⁷ says that supposed G[arrulus]. Lidthi, received from Japan, is only G[arrulus]. japonicas. He seems to infer that G[arrulus]. Lidthi is a syn[onym]. of jap[onicas]. but is not quite clear.

Ibis. 1876. 333-334.

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A. G. Vordermann.[sic] 1885

Birds of Java

Adds 14 sp[ecies]. to Java list, 1 of which, Brachypteryx salaccensis, is new.

Total Java birds —

Rapaces. 28.

Incessores. 279

Gralloe. 69.

Natatores. 28.

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