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Sir IViUiam Garstin's Expedition to the White Nile. — 

 Mr. Stanley S. Flower, Director of tlic Zoological Gardens 

 at Ghizeh, left Cairo on the 3rd March last on an Expedition 

 sent lip the White Nile^ by Lord Cromer, to make scientific 

 observations of all sorts, under the leadership of Sir William 

 Garstin. There can be no don])t that this energetic young 

 naturalist, wlio fully inherits his late father's tastes, will 

 make excellent use of his opportunities. We hope that 

 Mr. Flower will not forget the birds. 



Canon Tristram's Golden Wedding. — We are sure that 

 members of the B. O. U. and other friends of ornithology 

 will join us in offering congratulations to Canon and 

 Mrs. Tristram on the occasion of their golden wedding, 

 which was celebrated at Durham on the 5th of February last. 

 So far as we know this is an unique event among the brethren 

 of our Union. 



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Mr. Thomas J. Monk, who died at his residence, St. Anne's, 

 Lewes, on 22ud December last, in his 70th year, was a very 

 fine specimen of the sportsman-naturalist. His collection of 

 Sussex-taken birds was celebrated, and contained some 

 remarkably rare wanderers to Great Britain, such as the 

 (first) Black-throated Thrush, the Red-throated Pipit, the 

 (first) Black-headed Bunting and Rustic Bunting, the (only) 

 Little Bunting, the (first) Scarlet Grosbeak, and the (only) 

 White-winged Lark. Several of these were taken alive by 

 bird-catchers in the vicinity of Brighton and transferred to 

 Mr. Monk's large aviar\'^, an establishment in which he took 

 great pride, and where he attained a large amount of success 

 in breeding and crossing. A good shot and rider, a genial 

 companion, with a fund of racing and racy reminiscences, 

 his loss will be very much felt by those who knew him, both 

 in and beyond Sussex. 



Ornithology has sustained a severe loss bv the death on 



