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in the February number, being a readable little account of 

 tlie Sunbirds lie saw on bis visit to South Africa in 11)14. 



Mr. Blaauw gives us another little essay in the July 

 number, " About Birds along the river near Oudtshoorn." 



Mr. Blnauw in concluding his paper states that he had a 

 very bad dinner in a very chilly room, and gives as his 

 reason for remembering this, that his experience of South 

 African dinners was that they were alicays bad, so that he 

 could not make a mistake. He must have been extremely 

 unhicky in the choice of his hotels, but what this hns to do 

 with Ornithology we do not know. 



Mr. D. Seth Smith gives us some interesting notes from 

 the London Zoological Gardens in the September number, 

 while Dr. V. G. L. van Someren publishes an interesting 

 article on the Lesser Red-winged Bush Shrike (Telephonus 

 australis minor). This paper is illustrated by three fine 

 photographs. A. K. H. 



Mammalia. 

 Proceedings of tlie Zoological Society of London for 1916. 



The March number contains, inter alia, a description of a 

 new Sable Antelope from Angola (Hippotragus niger 

 variani) by Oldfield Thomas, with a woodcut (p. 300). 



" Observations on the Intestinal Tract of Mammals," by 

 Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell (text-figs. 1-30). 



"The Tympanic bulla in Hyaenas," by R. I. Pocock. 



The June number contains the following of interest to us : 

 " Notes on the Sitatunga or Marsh Antelope of the Sesse 

 Islands, Lake Victoria Nyanz:i,^^ by Major Meinertzhagen. 



" On the External Characters of the Mongooses (Mun- 

 gostidae)," by R. I. Pocock. This paper deals with the 

 structure of the ear, vibrissse, rhinarium, feet, the glandular 

 anal sac and its functions, and the external genitalia. The 

 African examples of Mungostidae examined were 

 Helogale undulata from British East Africa, Ichneu- 

 miij, Cynictis penicillata, and Suricata suricatta 

 from South Africa, Ariela fasciata from the Sudan, 

 Crossarchus obscurus from West Africa. 



