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follows a list of the Northern mig-rants as given by Sclater 

 in his paper above mentioned.) I have no time now 

 to discuss the data from which Sclater made up his list 

 of Northern migrants, as the 14th volume of the'Aquila' 

 is ready for press and the matter requires more leisure 

 than is now at my disposal, but I will revert to it in 

 the next volume. Suffice it to remark that in Pretoria 

 a Committee has been formed for Protection and Migra- 

 tion, with Dr. J. W. B. Gunning as Chairman and Alwin 

 Haagner as Secretary. This Committee has issued a postcard 

 containing the names of the following six species : Merops 

 cqnaster, Himindo rustica, Cerchneis naitmanni, Totanus litto- 

 rmis, Ciconia cicojiia, and Glareola melanoptera. These cards 

 call for observations on the arrival and departure of the afore- 

 mentioned species, and the survey is after the model of the 

 great Swallow survey of the Hungarian Ornithological Office 

 of 1898, which is no doubt well known to our South African 

 colleagues. In a letter to Sclater we suggested the following 

 modification of the list : H. rustica and C. ciconia to remain, 

 and that for the remaining species Cerchneis vespertina, Cora- 

 cias parnda, Totanus calidris, and Cuculus canorus should be 

 substituted. This alteration is suggested by the fact of the 

 importance of taking such species as best admit of obser- 

 vation in Europe and those that have already been well 

 worked up, such as Oriolus galhula and others in Middendorff's 

 ' Isepiptesen Russlands.' 



" We heartily wish our South African colleagues an 

 auspicious commencement. 



" Otto Herman." 



" Budapest, Nov. 1907." 



