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long-projected collecting trip to N.W. Fohkien will now, I 

 hope, take place. I shall not be alone, as I am to be married 

 shortly, and my wife will accompany me. Our plans are 

 to start at the beginning of March, so as to reach Kuatun 

 as early as possible in April. We shall return here towards 

 the end of May, and leave for Europe in June." 

 . Mr. Boyd Alexander has left England for South Africa 

 ?s one of the nine members of Major Gibbons^s " Cape to 

 Cairo'' expedition, and will look after the birds and 

 mammals. He will have a native collector to help him. 

 The party will land at Chinde and proceed up the Zambesi, in 

 two launches and a barge (made of aluminium) which are 

 taken out with thein, and will pass the rapids above Tete and 

 elsewhere by portage. They will then go overland to the line 

 of the African Lakes, and hope to arrive in Uganda about 

 April next year. If, as is expected, Khartoum is taken this 

 autumn, they anticipate an easy passage doMai the Nile to 

 Cairo. 



Our excellent correspondent Dr. E. A. Goeldi returned to 

 his work at Para in April last after seven months' absence. 

 Dr. Goeldi, during his excursion up the Rio Capim last year, 

 caught a sharp attack of malarious fever, and went to the 

 hills at the back of Rio for change of air, intending to 

 return home in January. This, however, was prevented by a 

 relapse, which drove him again up to the Organ Mountains. 

 Here, we may be sure, he was not idle. We are pleased to 

 be able to say that Dr. Goeldi is now in much better health. 

 He has sent Mr. Sclater a skin of Psophia obscura (quite 

 distinct from Ps. viridis), which we hope to be able to figure 

 in the next 'Ibis,' and a living specimen of a rare Curassow 

 {Crax pinima), both from the Rio Capim. 



List of Illustrated Ornithological Works in course of publi- 

 cation, and the Dates of the last Parts issued. 



British Birds, their Nests and Eggs. By various well-known 

 Authors. Illustrated by F. W. Frohawk, Part 

 LXXXVIII. (1898.) 



