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(f)) Tn the November number ot" the same Journal appears 

 an article by Dr. Reichenow on " Descriptions of new 

 Species/' Eleven new species and one new subspecies are 

 described, princi[)ally from East Africa and the East African 

 coast. 



(7) The ' Proceedings of the United States National 

 Museum,' xxviii. I'.Kjf), contains an article by Harry 

 C. Oberholser, F.M.B.O.U., of the United States Biological 

 Survey, on '* Birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the 

 Kilimanjaro Region, East Africa." The paper deals with 

 25G species, and describes a number of new subspecies and a 

 few new species. It seems to be rather regrettable that the 

 author should alter so many well-known generic names and 

 use such as " Tach^nautes" for " Cypselus," "' Poueropsar'^ 

 for " Sj>reo" etc. One or two names used are only new ones 

 for old established species, e. g. " Lissotis notliopldla " for 

 L. lovati (Grant) and " Acrocephalus rinus " for A. macro- 

 rliynclius (Hume). 



(8) In the 'Journal fur Ornithologie ' for July 1905, 

 Prof. Dr. E. Vanhotfen, of Kiel, publishes his very interesting 

 " Report on the Birds observed by the German South-Polar 

 Expedition." The following extracts may be of interest to 

 Members :— On the 28th October, at 28° S. lat., the first 

 Cape Pigeon {Daption capense) was seen, and on November 

 5th the first southern member of the Tern family {Sterna 

 vittatii) was met with, which latter bird remained with the 

 ship till the IGth of the same month, when it was shot. 

 About 200 sea miles from the South African coast. Prion 

 cceruleus was seen on 22nd Novem])er, and when about 120 

 miles from the Cape the coast birds began to show them- 

 selves, becoming more numerous the nearer the vessel ap- 

 proached land. The species were Sula capensis. Lams 

 dominicawit^, a species of Skua, Phalacrocorax capensis, and 

 a Tern — probably Sterna /wn/ei. The expedition left Capo 

 Town on 7th December, and on ihe afternoon of the 8th all 



