Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 5G7 



tliat lie travelled S.E. into North-east Rhodesia aud, after 

 paying a short visit to Fort Jameson, went north, right up 

 the Loangwa Valley, and tlience visited Lake ]3ang\veolo, the 

 Lofu River running into Lake Tanganyika, and the Kalun- 

 gwisi River running into Lake Mweru. lie collected about 

 850 skiris of Birds, besides JMatumals and Insects, and is now 

 engaged in working out his results at the British Museum, 

 South Kensington. 



Mr. Douglas Carruthers's Movements. — ^Nlr. Carruthers, as 

 we expected (see ' Ibis,^ 1908, p. 547), has left Samarkand, 

 and gone back to his old headquarters at the Syrian Pro- 

 testant College, Beirut. His collection or birds formed in 

 the Zarafshan Valley (see above, p. 190) has arrived at South 

 Kensington, and will be worked out by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. 

 Mr. Carruthers has already made a short excursion to the 

 oasis of Tebuk, on the Hedjaz Railway, When writing, on 

 March 26th, he was about to start on a new expedition from 

 the Dead Sea up the Jordan Valley, and thence to the summit 

 of Mount Herraon. 



More mar/ced Storks captured on Migration. — In ' The 

 Times ' of March 3rd, Mr. P. McKenzie announces the 

 shooting, in the Polela district of Natal, of a White Stork, 

 which bore on one leg a metal band with the inscription 

 " Ornith. Kospont, Budapest, Hungaria, 209.^' To this 

 letter there appeared in the same journal for March 1 7th 

 a reply from Dr. O. Herman, Director of the Royal Hun- 

 garian Central Bureau for Ornithology, stating that the bird 

 in question had been liberated in Transylvania in July 1908. 



We also learn from ' The Times ' of April 26th that the 

 Rev. Ernest Schmitz, Director of the German Catholic 

 Hospice at Jerusalem, has reported the capture of a marked 

 Stork near that city on April 5th to the Hungarian Central 

 Bureau for Ornithology, Budapest. A flock of more than 

 2000 Storks alighted to rest by one of the lakes near Jeru- 

 salem, and five were caught. The marked bird was hatched 

 at Egri, in Eastern Hungary, last season, and marked with 

 the Stork-ring No. 293 on July 8, 1908; it will be placed in 



