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Parrot was brought from the Manyuema country^ on the west 

 of Lake Tangyanika, opposite Ujiji, where, according to Dr. 

 Livingstone's information, the chief is called " Mana-kos/' or 

 "King of the Koskos^' or Parrots. The existence oiPsittacus 

 erithacus in the Niam-niam country, on the western water- 

 shed of the White Nile, was already known "^; but the fact of 

 its occurrence on Lake Tangyanika is, we believe, new. Dr. 

 Kirk says it is often brought down to Zanzibar by the dealers 

 in ivory. — P. L. S. 



Mr. Clark Kennedy is preparing a volume on the natural 

 history of the Orkney Islands, which will be published about 

 the end of June. It will be entitled ' The Sportsman and 

 Natui'ahst among the Isles of Orkney,' and will contain a 

 complete list of all the birds of those islands, with notes 

 on their habits and migrations, and descriptions of other 

 animals and plants met with there. — P. L. S. 



M. Bourcier's collection of Humming-birds was, as we are 

 informed by Mr. D. G. Elliot, sold in Paris in the beginning 

 of last March. Mr. Elliot bought nearly all the types, and 

 also the specimens of the rarer species, for his own coUection, 

 where, he requests us to say, they will in future be accessible 

 to any one desirous of consulting them. 



We are also informed that Count Turati, of Milan, has 

 bought half the collection of Humming-birds belonging to 

 the late E. Yerreaux. The remaining portion is still undis- 

 posed of. — P. L. S. 



The New Paradise-birds and their Discoverers. — The con- 

 cluding part (iv.) of the "^Journal fiir Ornithologie ■* for 1873 

 (dated October 1873, but only issued a few days since) con- 

 tains the description of a "new Paradise-bird, Epimachus 

 wilhelmina," by Dr. A. B. Meyer. The article is dated 

 "Andai (New Guinea), 15 March, 1873.'' (Did the MS. 

 * Cf. TTeiiglin, Ornith. Nordost-Afrika'p, p. 745. 



