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of that group of islands. Mr. H. E. Dresser sends us a 

 prospectus of a work on " the Eggs of the Birds of Europe," 

 which it is proposed to issue in quarto, uniform with his 

 ' Birds of Europe/ and which will be published in about 

 20 parts at intervals of two months. 



The executive Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union announce a work on the birds of that county by 

 Mr. Thomas H. Nelson, assisted by Messrs. Eagle Clarke, 

 F. Boyes, and other well-known observers. From America 

 we have received the announcement of a new (fifth, 

 revised) edition of the late Dr. Elliott Coues's well-known 

 'Key to North-American Birds/ first published in 1872, the 

 MS. of which was finished shortly before his death. We 

 believe that copies of this work are already on sale. The 

 publishers are Dana, Este & Co., of Boston. 



Mr. Radcliffe Saunders's Collection of Birds'-Eggs. — The 

 cabinets of the Natural History Museum have just been 

 enriched by a generous donation from Mr. W. F. Radcliffe 

 Saunders, a well-known private collector, who has devoted 

 his attention to Palsearctic species. In round numbers the 

 gift consists of 10,000 eggs— 9948, to give the exact figures 

 — and 165 nests with full clutches. As there was a former 

 gift by Mr. Radcliffe Saunders of about the same number of 

 eggs, and the Museum cabinets are estimated to contain 

 nearly 100,000 specimens, his contributions may well be 

 taken as, numerically, one-fifth of the whole — Field, April 8th, 

 1905. 



Death of M. Adolphe Boucard, C.M.Z.S.—k figure 

 formerly well known to many of the members of the 

 B. O. U. was that of M. Adolphe Boucard, of Oakhill, 

 Spring Vale, Ryde, Isle of Wight, who died at his son's 

 residence at Hampstead on the 15th of December last. 

 Boucard, who was of French nationality, but well acquainted 

 with Spanish and English, was born in 1839. When scarcely 

 twenty years of age he left Europe on his first collecting- 



