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to an elevation of 13,000 feet. Besides the well-known 

 explorer, the late Pere David, this country has been visited, 

 for scientific purposes, only by Berezowski (who accompanied 

 Potamin, as zoologist, during his expeditions into the borders 

 of Szechuen and Kansu) and the entomologist Mr. A. E. 

 Pratt, who formed a small collection of birds (see Seebohm, 

 'Ibis/ 1891, p. 370). But much more remains to be done in 

 this attractive region, where splendid Phasianidse abound. 

 The route, by steamer up the Yaug-tze to Ichang, is quite 

 easy,and thecountry is very healthy, while the large mammals 

 on the mountains supply sport and food. Some of our 

 younger brethren would do well to transfer their attentions 

 from Africa to this little-known part of Asia. 



A Visit to Dr. Krueper. — In a recently published article 

 upon his ornithological expedition to the Peloponesus (see 

 Journ. f. On., July 1905), Dr. Parrot of Munich (whose 

 acquaintance some of us had the pleasure of making at the 

 last Ornithological Congress) gives the following account of 

 a visit paid to Dr. Krueper at Athens in March 1904 : — 



"The chief object of my sojourn in the capital city of 

 Greece was a visit to our countryman, Dr. Theodor Krueper, 

 who received me in the kindest way. The following morning 

 we met by appointment in the University Museum, where it 

 was a great enjoyment to me to have its treasures explained 

 by so distinguished an authority. Unfortunately my time 

 was limited, for I had engaged myself to go to the house of 

 Stauros Strimeneas, the taxidermist of the University, in 

 order to examine a collection of birds made by his son in 

 Epirus during the previous autumn. After this I returned 

 to my hotel to prepare for my departure. But Dr. Krueper 

 would not relinquish his purpose of seeing me off, and in 

 spite of his 75 years busied himself in assisting me so much 

 that I feared that the exertion would do him harm. May 

 the highly-esteemed explorer retain his extraordinary activity 

 many years longer. That is the wish of all his old friends 

 at home." 



