  Recently, Bautista (1996, A&AS, 119, 105) reported new calculations of
photoionization cross sections for Fe V, and compared them with the earlier
results of Reilman & Manson (1979, ApJS, 40, 815) and Verner et al. (1993,
Atomic Data Nucl. Data Tables, 55, 233). Bautista claimed that beyond 10 Ry the
new cross sections ``converge well toward the results by Reilman and Manson'',
whereas ``the calculations by Verner et al. still underestimate the cross
section by almost factor of two''. We show that Bautista erroneously compared
the total (summed over shells) cross sections from Reilman & Manson with the
partial 3d-shell cross sections from Verner et al. Actually, the total cross
sections from Verner et al. and Reilman & Manson agree within 3% at all
energies.
