710 Proceedings of the Fifth 



143. Machetes pugnax (Linn.). 

 Tot anus puynax Reich, i. p. 216. 

 a, b. [cJ ? .] Lake Naivasba. (Nos. 205,207.) 

 [Ruffs and Reeves were common on the shores of Lake 

 Naivasha.— A. B. P.] 



141. PODTCIPES CAPENSIS Licllt. 



Colymbus capensis Reich, i. p. 18. 



a. <$ juv. Mombasa, 26th Aug., 1900. (No. 7.) 



This is quite a young bird, with the sides of the face and 



throat white, streaked and blotched with brown; the rufous 



feathers are just making their appearance. 



145. Columba guinea (Linn.). 

 Columba guinea Reich, i. p. 401. 



a. Mt. Kilimanjaro, 18th Jan., 1902. (No. 250.) 

 [Multitudes of these Pigeons came to drink at a water- 

 hole near Kilimanjaro. — A. B. P.] 



146. EXCALFACTORIA ADANSONI (VeiT.). 



Excalfactoria adansoni Reich, i. p. 509. 



a. [ <? .] Mombasa, Sept. 1900. (No. 14.) 



XXXII. — Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress 

 of Ornithologists. 



The Fifth International Congress of Ornithologists was held 

 this year at Berlin under the presidency of Professor Anton 

 Reichenow. A meeting, to enable the members who had 

 already arrived to renew their acquaintanceship, was held on 

 Sunday evening, the 29th of May, in the Landwehr Offizier- 

 Kasino, Hardenbergstrasse, close to the Zoological Gardens, 

 where most of the subsequent gatherings were also held. But 

 the first formal meeting took place in the Grand Saloon of 

 the Zoological Gardens in the forenoon of the 30th of May, 

 when Professor Reichenow gave an excellent address on the 

 progress of ornithology during the last one hundred and 

 fifty years, and on its present state. Prior to the President's 

 Address the election of officers for the meeting took place, 



