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Kilimanjaro district of Africa, also visited the Aldabra 

 group, N.W. of Madagascar, and obtained a collection of 

 birds and eggs. Mr. Ridgway has already characterized the 

 new birds. Mr. Bendire now describes the eggs of four 

 species. 



2. Berezowski and Bianchi on the Birds of Kansu. 



[Aves Expeditionis Potanini per proviuciam Gau-su et confinia, 1884- 

 87. Auctt. M. Berezowski et V. Bianchi. St. Petersburg', 1891.] 



The text of this article, with the exception of the scientific 

 names, being in Russian, we regret not being able to say 

 much about it. It is, however, evidently an account of the 

 birds collected by MM. Berezowski and Bianchi daring their 

 travels in the great northern Chinese province of Kan-su and 

 its vicinity, in 1884 and the three following years. 



The list of species of which representatives were obtained 

 is 267 in number. The following six species are described 

 as new : — Trochalopteron sukatschewi, Suthora przewahkii, 

 Larvivora obscura, Pcecile hypermelmia, P. davidi, and Sitta 

 przewalskii. The following species are figured in nicely 

 executed coloured plates : — Trochalopteron sukatschewi, Lar- 

 vivora obscura, Suthora przewalskii, Pcecile hypermelcena, 

 P. davidi, Parus venustulus, Carpodacus trifasciatus, and 

 C. stoliczkcB. 



3. Briggs on the Birds of North Ronaldshay. 



[Some further Bird Notes from North Ronaldshay. By Allan Briggs. 

 Ann. Scottish Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 82.] 



Mr. Briggs gives a series of field-notes on the birds 

 observed in North Ronaldshay, the most northern of the 

 Orkney Islands, in 1893. The first Nightjar ever seen there 

 by the author was observed on June 4th, A small colony 

 of Sandwich Terns [Sterna cantiaca) nested in Ronaldshay 

 among the Black-headed Gulls in 1893, the first time this 

 species has been known to breed in the group. 



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