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fledged and tlie mother a most disreputable-looking object, 

 with ragged plumage and unable to fly. The male was then 

 very busy, as he liad three to feed. — Wylde^s Modern 

 Abyssinia, p. 492. 



The Australasian Ornithologists' Union. — We are pleased to 

 have received a circular announcing that the Australasian 

 Ornithologists^ Union [cf. Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 54) has been 

 successfully started, and that the first General Meeting will 

 be held at Adelaide in October or November of this year. The 

 Journal of the Union will be appropriately named ' The 

 Emu.^ Col. W. V. Legge, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., will probably 

 be the first President. 



The Para Museum. — We are glad to be able to announce 

 that the Governor of the State of Para has issued a decree 

 ordering that the name of the Museu Paraense shall be in 

 future " Museu Goeldi," in honour of its distinguished 

 Director, our excellent correspondent Prof. Dr. Emil Goeldi. 



New Ornithologicat Periodical. — On or about September 1st, 

 1901, the Bird Club of Princeton University was to publish 

 its first ' Bulletin,' edited by Mr. Wm. E. D. Scott, Curator 

 of Ornithology, Princeton University. It should contain 

 an annotated list of the birds of Princeton and vicinity, by 

 William Arthur Babson, B.S., 1901. This list is the result 

 of four years of scientific observation and study of the birds 

 of Princeton. The ' Bulletin ' wall contain about seventy 

 or eighty pages, will be plainly bound in paper, and will be 

 sold for one dollar. 



Birds in the Zoological Garden, Cairo. — From Capt. 

 Stanley Flower's report, for 1900, on the Zoological Garden 

 at Ghizeh, near Cairo, we learn that 25 species of birds living 

 at large in the Garden were noted during that year. Turdus 

 musicus, MotaciUa alba, and M. cinereocapilla are regular 

 winter visitors, besides 5 species of Ducks. 



