Abstract
It is shown that the crystal field used in an earlier investigation for explaining the axial field splitting of the Mn2+ ion in MnF2 and ZnF2 has no error as inferred by a later author. This is proved with the help of the transformation properties of the crystal field. Hence, the agreement between the theory based on the point-multipole model and experiment is still valid.

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