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hen the King of Bulgaria and the Princess Theresa of 

 Bavaria were made Honorary Presidents of the Congres*, 

 ami the following gentlemen were elected Vice-Presidents — 

 Director Otto Heiman, Count Arrigoni degli Oddi, Mr. 

 Buturlin, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Professor Lonnberg, Dr. Svetlikj 

 Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg, and M. Ternier. One 

 of these, Mr. Buturlin, was unable to attend the Congress. 



The Sections were arranged as follows : — 



(i.) Anatomy, Paleontology, Classification, and Geographical 

 Distribution. Presidents: the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 Dr. E. Hartert, and Dr. Menegaux. 



(ii .) Migration. Presidents : Director Otto Herman, Dr. 

 Reiser^ and Dr. Parrot. 



(iii.) Biology, Oology, Acclimatization, and Aviculture. Pre- 

 sidents : Amtsrat A. Nehrkorn, Dr. Biittikofer, and 

 the Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain. 



(iv.) Bird-Protection. Presidents: Freiherr von Berlepsch, 

 Herr von Kazy, and Dr. Carl Hennicke. 



(v.) Poultry and Poultry-rearing. Presidents: HerrBurcbard, 

 Herr Bahr, and Herr von Gontscharoff. 



The meetings of these five sections commenced on Tuesday, 

 the 31st of May, with a paper by Dr. Hartert (in Section i.) 

 on the duties of scientific ornithologists, more especially with 

 regard to the descriptions of new forms or subspecies. 



The meetings were continued every day until the 4th of 

 June. Amongst the papers read were the following : — The 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild on the present and former distri- 

 bution of the Ratitee ; Count Hans von Berlepsch on a 

 revision of the Tanagridse ; Baron Harold Loudon on the 

 birds observed by him in Transcaspia in 1908-1909; the 

 Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain on birds observed in Corsica and 

 in the Dobrudscha ; Professor Koenig on a journey to the 

 Sudan in the spring of the present year, where he obtained 

 much information respecting the ornithology of that country; 

 Mr. Otto Bamberg on the breeding of Tardus ruficollis in 

 Mongolia ; Dr. van Oort on a small collection of birds 



