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frons), Delicate Owl {Strix delicatuhx), Bee-eater {Merops oi'fiatus), 

 Sacred Kingfisher (Halcyon sajictiis). Fan-tailed Cuckoo {Caco- 

 mantis flabclliformis), Rufous-breasted Bronze-Cuckoo {Clialco- 

 coccyx paxilurus), Koel {Eudynaniis cyanocephala), Black-faced 

 Flycatcher {MonarcJia inelanopsis), White -bellied Cuckoo-Shrike 

 {Graucaius Jiypoleucns), besides local birds. My next stopping 

 place was Manila, where I had a day and a half. Here there 

 are a few patches of scrub, but much bamboo grows in thickets. 

 There were comparatively few Australian birds noticed here, 

 only the Spotless Crake {Por.':ana plunibea), Herodias tiinoriensis, 

 Large-tailed Nightjar {Caprininlgus niacnirus),2ind Little Bronze- 

 Cuckoo {CJialcococcyx nialayaniis). There were two museums, 

 both belonging to colleges, but the local birds were fairly 

 represented in them. From here I went to Hong Kong. On 

 that island saw some Spine-tailed Swifts [Chcetnra caudacuta) 

 hawking after insects, but otherwise no Australian forms were 

 observed, but in any case bird-life here is scarce. My next 

 ports of call were Nagasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama. I stayed 

 nearly three weeks in Japan, where I found bird-life generally 

 scarce, at least in the district I visited, but they seemed most 

 plentiful near the foot of Mt. Fujiyama. It is here that the 

 Japanese Snipe {Gallinago austrahs) is found nesting,* usually 

 on the bare lower slopes of the mountains, but the young were 

 mostly hatched at the time of my visit. Mr. R. A. D. Hood, 

 who had been with me up to this time, returned to Melbourne. 

 I went on to Vancouver in the " Empress " line of steamers. 

 When well on my way in the northern seas I noticed two 

 varieties of Albatross following the steamer — one with a white 

 breast and back, the Short-tailed Albatross, breeds on the 

 Laysan Lslands ; the other one seen was dark brown, the Black- 

 footed Albatross. Many northern forms of sea-birds were 

 observed in large numbers, especially the Little Auk, which 

 preferred diving to flying when disturbed by the steamer. From 

 Victoria I visited Tacoma, and then went on by train to Van- 

 couver. At Victoria there was a nice local museum, with a fair 

 collection of local fauna. From here I travelled by the Canadian 

 Pacific railway through the Rocky Mountains, which are far too 

 grand to describe with any degree of accuracy, and journeyed 

 over the prairies, past the two neighbouring towns, Melbourne 

 and Sydney, the latter being the larger, and on to Toronto via 

 Winnipeg. A day was spent at the wonderful Niagara Falls, 

 and Boston reached in the morning the Zoological Congress 

 opened. Many interesting papers bearing on ornithology were 

 read, and will probably appear in print in due course. I next 

 visited Philadelphia, and in the local museum I looked through 

 Gould's collection of Australian birds, and saw many of his type 

 specimens. They were in very good order, and we hope to get 



"Also see notice on Mr. C. Ingram's article, p. 200. — Eus. 



