330 Letters, Announcements, 6^c. 



DuCane Godman^ seconded by Mr. Howard Saunders, and 

 carried unanimously. 



The Meeting then adjourned^ and the Annual Dinner was 

 held at the Cafe Royale, and was attended by about twenty- 

 five Members and quests. 



Neiv Ornithological Work. — We are glad to hear that Mr. 

 Edward Bartlett, Curator of the Maidstone Museum, has been 

 for some years collecting materials for a great work on the 

 Ploceidae and Fringillidse, upon which his MS. is becoming- 

 very voluminous. He has besides a fine collection of the 

 birds themselves, and will feel truly grateful for odd papers 

 or notes on any of the species. Mr. Bartlett says that the 

 work has been a labour of love to him, with little idea of 

 compensation, and he hopes it will be of value to science, as 

 well as to persons who are fond of this beautiful group of 

 birds in confinement. 



Prjevalsky's New Expedition. — The ' Times ' of May 25th 

 publishes a letter from Col. Prjevalsky dated Lob Nor, 

 Feb, 10th, in which he states that the collections of natural 

 history during the present expedition " are not inconsiderable. 

 The poorest is that of the birds — 1000 specimens — of which 

 one only is new, Leucosticte roboivoskii.''' 



" We have passed the autumn and winter in the western 

 regions of Zaidan and Northern Tibet, where we made 

 many geographical discoveries. We arrived at Lob Nor 

 yesterday, and shall pass the month of February here, ob- 

 serving the migration of birds. In March we shall start for 

 the town of Kiria, where our collections, loaded on ten 

 camels, will remain, while we pass the summer in the moun- 

 tains of Northern Tibet, with the intention of re-entering 

 Turkestan in the autumn. We have heard no news from 

 Europe for twelve months, and have not seen another human 

 being for three months." 



The Ridgway Ornithological Club, Chicago, U.S.A. — March 

 5th, 1885. J. L. Hancock read a paper on the Birds of Corpus 



