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p. 57). We hope to be able to give some account of both 

 these expeditions iu our next number. 



Mr. Ogilvie Grant has been able to carry out successfully 

 a long-planned expedition to the Salvage Islands, between 

 Madeira and the Canaries, and seems to have brought away 

 specimens of every natural object to be found in this remote 

 spot, including specimens of a Petrel [Oceanodroma crypto- 

 leucura) new to the European Avifauna. 



Mr. Ogdvie Grant has received from Mr. Whitehead 

 another set of birds from the mountains of Luzon, which 

 contains many novelties, and amongst others specimens of a 

 new Bullfinch [PyrrJmla). We hope that an account of 

 this collection will also be ready for our next number, 



Mr. R. C. L. Perkins, under the directions of the Sand- 

 wich Island Committee, left again for his former quarters in 

 February last, and was to proceed first, we understand, to 

 Kauai. The Committee have now resolved to distribute the 

 specimens contained in Mr. Perkinses first collection (about 

 500 in number, from the islands of Maui, Kauai, Molokai, 

 Lanai, Oahu, and Hawai), assigning the first set to the 

 British Museum and the second set to the Museum of the 

 University of Cambridge. 



' Aves Haivuiienses ' and the ' Avifauna of Laysan.' — Both 

 Mr. Scott B. Wilson and Mr. W. llothschild have issued 

 notices to the subscribers to their respeciive works that they 

 propose to defer the publication of their concluding parts 

 until the return of Mr. Perkins from his second expedition 

 to the Sandwich Islands. This delay, we venture to think, 

 is much to be regretted in both cases, as the date of the 

 close of Mr. Perkins's new expedition is quite indefinite, and 

 it is on all accounts desirable to bring such works to a speedy 

 conclusion, without waiting with the hopeless idea of render- 

 ing them "perfect." 



Anniversary Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 

 1895. — The Annual General Meeting of the British Orni- 

 thologists' Union was held at the rooms of the Zoological 



