682 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



291 birds from the White Nile, received in exchange from 

 Mr. 11. M. Hawker : 37 birds from the Sudan, including 

 the type of Cisticola aridula, and examples of two species 

 new to the collection, received in exchange from Mr. H. F. 

 Witherby : 89 birds from the Cameroous, including the 

 types of five new species and examples of six species new 

 to the collection, collected by Mr. G. L. Bates, purchased : 

 211 birds from Ecuador and Peru, including examples of 

 four species new to the collection, purchased : 49 birds, 

 including the types of nine new species and examples of 

 23 species new to the collection, and 76 nests and eggs, 

 from New Guinea, collected by Herr Weiske, purchased : 

 and a series of 529 specimens of the family Paridse, including 

 four types and examples of many species new to the collection, 

 formed by Prof. Menzbier, obtained by purchase." 



The late Mr. Simons' s Collection of Birds. — An important 

 series of nearly 2500 South-American bird-skins has been 

 recently acquired by the British Museum of Natural History. 

 This represents a part of the results of the labours of the 

 late Mr. Perry O. Simons, who has been engaged in South 

 America for several years collecting Mammals for Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas. Mr. Simons, we regret to say, was murdered by 

 his native guide in November last, on the boundary between 

 Chile and Argentma, near Puente de Inca, just as he had 

 nearly completed his explorations and was on the point of 

 coming home. Commencing with Ecuador, Mr. Simons 

 had travelled through Peru to Bolivia and Northern Ar- 

 gentina, visiting many localities which no collector had 

 previously explored, and had been at work in South America 

 for about three years when he met his death. 



Mr. BudyetVs Expedition lo the iSenitiki. — Mr. J. S. 

 Budgett, E.Z.S., who has left England on a scientific mission 

 at Western Uganda, writing from Kampala (i3th July, 1902), 

 informs us tuat he has obtained from Mr. Jackson tlie services 

 of one of ins trained skinners, and is just starting for the 

 Albert Lake. He intends then to proceed to Fort Portal, 

 and so to some spot on the lliver Semliki, where he will 

 work generally at the Eauua of that little-known district. 



