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where the winter-quarters of the Expedition were established 

 in 77° N. lat. :— 



"The change into summer was quite sudden. Gradually 

 the temperature of the snow had risen to zero, and then in 

 one day it all melted. The rivers were rushing along, flowers 

 were budding forth, and in the air the butterflies were 

 fluttering. It was a lovely time, bringing hard work for the 

 Botanist Lundager, and the Zoologists Manniche and 

 Johansen. The birds came nearly all on the same day, most 

 of them even at the same hour. One day we had only had 

 the ordinary Ptarmigan and the Raven ; the next day we had 

 the Sanderling, the Ring-Plover, the Goose, the Eider- Duck, 

 and many others. Young Sanderlings, Icelandic Ring- Plovers, 

 and Sabine's Gulls have been found by Mr. Manniche, our 

 indefatigable ornithologist, and fine specimens were brought 

 home.'' 



We hope to receive, in due course, an account from Mr, 

 Manniche of the birds obtained during this famous expedition. 



News from Mr. A. L. Butler. — Our excellent correspondent 

 Mr. A. L. Butler passed some time last year on the Red Sea 

 coast of the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan, and made many notes 

 on the spring migrants. Writing from Khartoum in October 

 last, Mr. Butler says that he still continues to obtain speci- 

 mens of species new to that locality, while from Mongolia, 

 on the Upper White Nile, he has lately received examples 

 of the little-known Pa^^er shelleyi (Shelley, B. Afr. iii. p. 247) . 



The Booth Collection at Brighton. — Mr. Arthur Griffith, a 

 Trustee of the " Booth Museum'" at Brighton, has lately 

 visited Hastings, and has obtained there some valuable 

 additions to the Collection. Amongst these are specimens of 

 the Pine-Grosbeak, Red-footed Falcon, Little Gull (in adult 

 summer plumage). Red-necked Grebe, Whiskered Tern, 

 Black Lai'k, Great Reed- Warbler, and Icterine Warbler, all 

 well-authenticated examples from Kent or Sussex. We wish 

 that all our provincial collections of birds were as well cared 

 for and kept up to the mark as that at Brighton. 



