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assured. In a conversation I had with Major Chanes on 

 the subject, he seemed to regard the preservation of birds 

 as almost too hopeless a problem to contend with, owing to 

 want of funds and organisation. That it is far from being 

 so it is unnecessary for me to point out. 



I am. Sirs, yours &c., 

 Le Nirl, Monte Carlo, Peucy R. Lowe. 



Principaute de Monaco, 

 Oct. 2nd, 1907. 



The Bombaij Natural Hisfori/ Society. — We arc glad to 

 announce that Mr. Norman Boyd Kinnear, M.B.O.U., Avho 

 has been for some time acting as honorary assistant to 

 Mr. Eagle Clarke in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 

 has been appointed Keeper of the Museum of the Natural 

 History Society of Bombay. j\Ir. Kinnear, who is a great- 

 grandson of the late Sir William Jardine, will shortly leave 

 England to take up his new appointment. 



Recent Additions to the Berlin Museum. — In the ' Oinitho- 

 logische Monatsbericht ' for November last we are told of 

 several important collections of birds lately received at 

 Berlin. Messrs. Niedieck and Hilgert have sent in 240 

 skins from Eregli (the present terminus of the Bagdad 

 Railway) and the adjoining Taurus Mountains. They are 

 referable to 79 species, amongst which is a new Goldfinch, 

 Carduelin niediecki. Herr Herrman, on his return from 

 Bolivia and the Pilcomayo, has brought 300 specimens of 

 birds. Herr Oberforster Hafs has sent from Tchin-tau, in 

 China, 128 specimens, amongst which are representatives of 

 14 species new to the avifauna of Kiautschou. Herr Tess- 

 man has contributed many birds from the Spanish Fan- 

 country of West Africa, and Dr. Gruner a good series of 

 birds and eggs from Iceland. So we see that our German 

 friends have good correspondents in all parts of the world. 



The Dule Adolf Frederick of Mecldenburrj's African 

 Expedition. — We also learn (rom the Ornithol. jMonatsb. 



