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tliey are mostly taken from photographs, as is tlic fashion 

 of the day. Mr. Selons's picture of the White-tailed Eagle's 

 nest (p. 77) may be specially commended, as also Miss E. L. 

 Turner's successful photograph of the young ot" the Great 

 Crested Grebe (p. lOi). Moreover, in the second number 

 will be found a most excellent portrait of Alfred Newton, 

 and in the seventh number an almost equally good one of 

 Howard Saunders. We think that we have now said 

 sufficient to call the attention of such of our readers as are 

 not already acquainted with it to this newest addition to the 

 list of ornithological periodicals. 



Mr. Boyd Alexander. — Since his return to England in 

 February last, Mr. Alexander's time has been fully occupied 

 Avith the preparation of the tw'o excellently written and fully 

 illustrated volumes (' From the Niger to the Nile ') that 

 contain the narrative of his famous expedition. After a short 

 rest, he is now devoticg himself to the examination and 

 description of the 2500 birds collected during his transit of 

 the African continent. We are much pleased to be able to 

 announce that the results of his work on this branch of the 

 Ethiopian Fauna will be published in ' The Ibis,' in two 

 parts. The first part of " The Birds of the Alexander-Gosling 

 Expedition " will relate to the birds of Nigeria and Lake 

 Chad, the second to the species met with in the Congo 

 State. 



Mr. S. A. Neavc's New Expedition. — Mr. S. A. N cave, whose 

 interesting paper on the birds of North-eastern Rhodesia 

 (collected by him as Naturalist to the Geodetic Survey) we 

 have ju^t noticed (above, p. 185)_, is now again in the same 

 country, busily engaged in supplementing the collections 

 made on his former visit. Mr. Neave has gone out as 

 Assistant to his father. Dr. Sheffield Neave, who is the 

 (Jhief Officer of the " Sleeping-Sickness Commission ^^ sent 

 into the Katanga district for the purpose of studying this 

 fatal form of disease. The party, we are told, landed at 



