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am told by Mr. Dc Vis that Sir William Macgregor has 

 discovered a third new Paradise-bird. 



As regards Africa, I need only call attention to the 

 collections made under the directions of Mr. H. H. Johnston, 

 C.B., by Mr. Alexander Whyte in Nyasa-land, and de- 

 scribed in ^The Ibis ^ by Capt. Shelley. Our German 

 fellow-workers are also constantly engaged in characterizing 

 new species from both the Eastern and the Western German 

 territories in Tropical Africa. Passing across the Atlantic 

 to South America we might well suppose that the stream of 

 novelties which has flowed from the Neotropical Region 

 abundantly for so many years, was now likely to stop. 

 But the collection recently received by INIr. Salvin from 

 Mr. Baron shows that even in Peru, M'hich has been so 

 fully explored by the collectors of Warsaw, this is not the 

 case. Mr. Salvin tells me that Mr. Baron's recent collec- 

 tion (of which he will shortly write in ' No\dtates Zoo- 

 logicse ') contains examples of no fewer than 14 new species. 

 Mr. Garlepp's collections from Bolivia, which are submitted 

 to the experienced scrutiny of Graf von Berlepsch, also 

 often comprise examples of new and remarkable species. 

 There is likewise still much to be done in Tucuman and in 

 the adjoining northern provinces of Argentina, whence Herr 

 Paul Neumann has lately sent a most interesting series of 

 specimens to the Berlin Museum {cf. Bull. B. O. C. iii. 

 p. xlv). It is plain, therefore, that we may still look forward 

 for many years to the great pleasure of discovering, de- 

 scribing, and figuring new species in ' The Ibis'' and in our 

 'Bulletin.' 



Section II. Ornithological Works in Progress 

 AND Promised. 

 As regards Ornithological books, there has seldom, if 

 ever, I think, been a time when so many new ones have 

 been in progress and in preparation. For England alone, 

 besides Lord Lilford's ' Coloured Figures of British Bii'ds,' 

 we have Dr. Sharpe's ' Handbook ' in the ' Naturalist's 

 Library,' and Wyatt's ' British Birds ' ; and Mr. Dresser has 



