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Dutchmen Diard (1826) and Salomon Muller (1836), wliile 

 the north of the island remained quite unexplored until the 

 arrival of Sir James Brooke in 1839 and his installation as 

 Kajah in 1842. The earliest list of Bornean hirds is that of 

 Hugh Low, which forms an appendix to his book ' Sarawak : 

 its Inhabitants and Productions/ published in 1848. This 

 list contains the names of only 59 species of birds. 



Robinson on Ringing Larus ridibundus. 



[Report on the results of Ringing Black-headed Gulls. By H. "W. 

 Robinson. British Birds, viii. 1915, pp. 209-218.] 



During the five years 1909-1913 Mr. Robinson lias 

 marked large numbers of nestlings of the Black-headed 

 Gull, in order to trace their movements after leaving their 

 parents' care. The greatest numbers have been ringed at 

 the well-known gullery at Ravenglass, in Cumberland. 

 Here 8096 were marked, and 345 have been recovered. On 

 the whole, the movement of the birds may be described as a 

 general scattering with a decided southward tendency along 

 both our west and east coasts. Outside the home quarters, 

 which are reckoned as from Solway to Dee, the largest 

 percentage of recoveries were made on the corresponding 

 portion of the east coast between Berwick and Humber. A 

 few birds strayed to the north and west coasts of France, 

 and three as far as the coast of Portugal. 



Salvadori on the History of the Turin Museum. 



[Notizie storiche intorno alia collezione ornitologica del Museo di 

 Torino raccolte da Tommaso Salvadori. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Torino 

 (2), Ixv. no. 5, 1915, pp. 1-49.] 



for fifty years since 1864 Count Salvadori has had charge 

 of the collection of birds in the Turin IMuseum. Since that 

 date the number of specimens in the IMuseum has increased 

 from 5398 to over 21,000. Among these are the types or 

 cotypes of 297 species, and examples of four extinct species, 

 Alca impennis, Convropsis carolinensis, Ectopistes migratorius, 

 and Fregilupus varius, while two others, Dromceus ater and 

 Heteralocha acutirostris, are marked as doubtfully so. 



In the present memoir Salvadori gives a historical survey 



