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manners M. Mouhot was most amiable and unassuming. In 

 him, the science of natural history has lost a worthy disciple/* 



To this we may add that, as we are informed by Mr. S. Stevens, 

 his agent in London, M. Henri Mouhot died at Muang Luang 

 Prabong, the capital city of Eastern Lao, on the 18th of Novem- 

 ber last year. Notices of some of M. Mouhot's extensive col- 

 lections in mammalogy and herpetology will be found in the 

 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society^ for 1860 and 1861, by 

 Dr. J. E. Gray and Dr. Giinther. 



Mr. Gould is engaged in preparing for publication the two 

 first numbers of a new and most remarkable addition to his 

 magnificent series of ornithological works. On this occasion, 

 instead of going to America or Australia to select objects for his 

 pencil, he has chosen the more familiar subjects of the " Birds of 

 Great Britain." It may be added that Mr. Gould has devoted 

 more than usual care and attention to the production of this 

 work. The accurate and characteristic portraits of our feathered 

 favourites which have thus resulted will, we are sure, render this 

 the most popular and the most successful of all Mr. Gould's 

 scientific undertakings. 



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Major R. C. Tytler, whose name is familiar to many of our 

 readers as that of an energetic worker in Indian ornithology, 

 has lately been appointed to the chief command at Port Blair,' 

 the capital of the new settlement in the Andaman Islands. 

 Major Tytler, as we learn from Mr. Blyth, has already procured 

 a fine new Tree-crow {Dendrocitta), of which he was forwarding 

 specimens, with other novelties, to the Museum of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal at Calcutta. 



