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600 specimens, and at the time of writing had plenty of 

 work with the spring-migrants. After next October his 

 plans are not yet settled, but he may possibly go back to 

 Beyrout. 



Mr. J. C. McLean, M.B. O. U. — Mr. McLean has presented 

 the bird-skins relating to his article " On some Bush-birds 

 of New Zealand/"" and to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant's '^ Appendix ^■' 

 to it published in 'The Ibis^ for last year (pp. 519, 542), to 

 the British Museum, and hopes to be shortly able to send 

 home more specimens of Pseudugerygone so as to enable 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant to complete his investigations on that 

 difficult genus. 



The Birds of the Ruwenzorian Expedition. — It has been 

 arranged that a series of papers on the resialts of the 

 Ruwenzorian Expedition (1905-6) shall be read before the 

 Zoological Society of London, and published in a special 

 volume of that Society's ' Transactions.' The introduction 

 will be written by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, to whom is due 

 the great credit of having organized and arranged this 

 successful Expedition, and the general narrative by 

 Mr. R. B. Woosnam. The Mammals will be described 

 by Mr. Oldfield Thomas and Mr. R. C. Wroughton, and 

 the Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes by Mr. G. A. Bou- 

 lenger. Mr. Ogilvie-Grant is himself at work on the Birds, 

 among which are representatives of 24 species new to 

 science. The examination of the Insects and other Inverte- 

 brates has been undertaken by various specialists, mostly on 

 the staff of the British Museum. The Flora of Ruwenzori, 

 based on the large collection of plants made on this occasion, 

 will be published by the Linnean Society. 



The Raffles Museum at Singapore. — By the kindness of 

 Dr. R. Hanitsch we have received copies of the ' Report 

 of the Raffles Library and Museum ' at Singapore for the 

 year 1907, and of the ' List of the Birds in the Raffles 



