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them all the way, resting on the ship at night or when fatigued. 

 The steamer had just left Colombo when the bird was discovered 

 flying overhead. This incident recalls another similar note of 

 Mr. Stead's, when he reported {Zoologist, 1900, p. 355) that a 

 Bronzewing Pigeon (Phaps chalcoptcra) flew aboard the dis- 

 abled steamer Perthshire when about 500 miles off the Eastern 

 Australian coast. 



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Mr. George Henschel, writing in Nature, p. 610 (April, 1903) 

 gives his extraordinary experience of having heard a Bullfinch 

 and a Canary sing, or, rather, whistle, " God Save the King " 

 between them. He heard them at the residence of his sister, 

 Frau Prof. Grosse, Brunswick, Germany. The birds were in 

 cages in separate rooms. The Bullfinch would whistle the first 

 seven bars, or half of the stanza, and the Canary would complete 

 the theme. Mr. Henschel concludes thus : — " I should be glad 

 to read in a further issue of your paper whether you share my 

 astonishment, or if any of your readers can perhaps recall or 

 have ever heard of a similar experience." 



Bulletins of the Philippine Museum. — Nos. 1 and 2 have been 

 received. Although these initial parts are small, it is safe to 

 predict a great future before the Museum (under American rule) 

 in such an interesting region as the Philippines. In No. 1 is 

 an article, " On Birds from Luzon, Mindoro, Masbate, Ticao, Cuyo, 

 Culion, Cagayan, Sulu, and Palawan," by Mr. Richard C. M'Gregor 

 wherein is described a new Drongo-Shrike (Chibia cuyensis). 

 In view of the fact that the Querquedula circia (Blue-winged Teal) 

 and Spatula clypeata (European Shoveller) are accidental to 

 Australia, it is interesting to find these species noted as new to 

 the Philippines on Mr. M'Gregor's list. Of the former Duck a 

 male was killed at Taguig, Luzon, 12th January, 1902, while on 

 6th February a live pair was purchased in the Manilla market. 

 The second number of the Bulletin contains a " List of Bird-Skins 

 Offered in Exchange " by the Museum. 



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On Show IN England.— The Crystal Palace Bird Show was 

 (according to the Avicultural Magazine) held in February under 

 the rules of the London and Provincial Ornithological Society. 

 Of Australian birds there was exhibited in the class " Parrakeets, 

 &c," a pair of Varied Lorikeets (Ptilosclera versicolor), which 

 took first prize. These birds were the first of the kind exhibited 

 in that country. A pair of Blue-bellied Lorikeets (Trichoglossus 

 novce-hollandice), a Black-tailed Parrakeet (Polytelis melanura), 

 King Lories (Aprosmictus cyanopygius), Red-winged Parrots 

 (Ptistes crythropterus), Crimson Parrakeets {Platycercus elegans), 

 and Rosella Parrakeets (P. eximius) were also shown. In the 

 class " Finches, &c," there were Ringed (Stictoptcra annulosa), 



