700 Letters, Extracts, Nol/ces, S^r. 



and it lias now been completed by Dr. Guillemard, the 

 author of the ' Cruise of the Marchesa/ &c., and will be 

 issued by Mr. Murray under the title of ' The Birds of 

 Siberia.' 



Death of Captain Weltby. — With great regret we see re- 

 corded the death of Capt. M. S, Wellby, of the 18th Hussars, 

 on Aug. 5th, from wounds received in the recent fight at 

 Pardekop. Capt. Wellby was one of the most able and 

 intrepid of modern British explorers, having traversed Asia 

 from Leh to Pekin, and Africa from Abyssinia by Lake 

 Rudolph to the Nde. On returning to England some 

 months ago from the latter arduous journey, he hurried off 

 to join his regiment in South Africa, and met with his end 

 as already mentioned. Capt. Wellby had a great love for 

 natural history, although the opportunities afforded to him 

 by his rapid style of travel did not give him much chance of 

 collecting. During his stay at Abbis Abeba, however, on 

 his last expedition, he managed to make a few skins of the 

 following species, as kindly determined for us at the British 

 Museum : — Buteo augur, Turacus donaldsoni, LamprocoUus 

 chalybeus, Heterorhynchus reichenoivi, Dryoscojms cethiopicus, 

 and MotacUla melanope. 



These skins we propose to deposit in the National Collec- 

 tion. — P. L. S. 



Mr. Charles Hose's return to Borneo. — !Mr. Charles Hose, 

 DSc, F.Z.S., has just returned to his residency on the 

 Baram River, Borneo, after a w^ell-earued rest of a few 

 months in this country, with every intention of resuming 

 his well-known studies of the fauna of that district. Mr. 

 Hose contemplates the publication of an illustrated volume 

 on the Birds of British Borneo, for which, as is well known, 

 he has been making preparations for many years. There is 

 no one among living ornithologists better acquainted with 

 the birds of Borneo or more competent to undertake such a 

 work. 



