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tlie birds of Juan Fernandez and Easter Islands in the 

 south-eastern Pacific. The editor also writes on a Green- 

 fincii X Gohlfiiieh hybrid, and Mr. K. Kolthoff on another 

 between Dryobales leuconotus and D. major. Mr. S. Bergmann 

 contributes some notes on the birds of" Egypt which he made 

 wliile on his way to Kamchatka to collect for the Stockholm 

 Museum. There is an obituary notice of Prof. J. A. Palmen 

 (1845-1919), that well-known Finnish ornithologist who 

 first drew up a list of the proljable flight-lines of migrating 

 birds, and another of Prof. Tycho TuUberg of Upsala, who 

 died at the nge (jf 77 in 1920. His mother was a great 

 grand-daughter of Linngeus. There are portraits with both 

 these articles. It is interesting to note that a Starling 

 marked in Sweden 8 July, 1915, was captured near 

 Middlesbrough iu Yorkshire on the 1st of February, 1918. 



Le Gerfaut. 



[Le Gerfaut. Kevue beige d'Ornithologie. Publi6e sous la direction 

 de M. Marcel de Contreras. 5e-9'' Aimee 1919 and IQe Annee 19l^0.] 



We have now received the complete set of the ' Gerfaut' 

 for 1919 and 19.20, the first two numbers of which were 

 noticed in 'The Ibis' for 1919 (p. 782), and must briefly 

 review the rest of the volumes, M. L. Coopman discusses 

 the Pipits, their migrations from eastern Europe and their 

 occuiience in Belgium, especially that of Anthus cervinus, 

 and Dr. Mairlot has a good article on the habits of the 

 Yellow Bunting. 



In an early number of the magazine, that for May 1912, 

 the first capture of Briinnich's Guillemot in Belgium is 

 recorded. This bird, which was taken at Ostend, turns 

 out to have been a young Razorbill, and the correction will 

 be found on p. 87 of the 1919 volume. 



The 1920 volume o^Jcus with a portrait and a eulogy of 

 M. Ivan Braconier, a leading Belgian ornithologist, who 

 was unfortunately killed in a motor accident. Another 

 article of interest is a comparison of the birds of Devonshire 

 with those of Belgium by M. Th. Bisschop, who during 

 the German invasion found a home at Torquay. The 



