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working knowledge of Spanish, we shall hope to ascertain the 

 possibilities of other parts of Spain that have been neglected in 

 the past. We regret to ssiy, however, that " maiiana " in Spain 

 seldom comes, and that many correspondents have taken up the 

 matter of Cology in Spain very eagerly, but that results have been 

 negligible in other cases. 



BREVITIES. 



The Hon. C. F. Belcher has been home from Nyasaland and 

 paid the Editor a very welcome visit, during which African Frmgil- 

 lidae were passed under review and notes compared. Mr. Belcher 

 presented us with some very fine sets of his own taking in Nyasaland, 

 especially a fine c/3 of Emheriza major, which reposes next to a 

 very strongly contrasting c/2 from Mr. Carlisle in Rhodesia. 



Talking over the progress of " The Oologists' Record," Mr. 

 Belcher expressed the opinion that we had now enlisted the support 

 of the Empire's principal working Oologists. We do indeed wish 

 this were the case ! The difficulty is to get into touch with the 

 others. There must be innumerable men working out their Oological 

 records all to themselves who would be glad, one would think, 

 to join up with us could we but get into touch. 



Mr. Houwing, writing from Java, says that his district is very 

 rich in bird-life. He finds a great need for an up-to-date and 

 helpful work on the birds of the Dutch Indies. 



Mr. Swann's article in the current issue sums up the extent 

 of our knowledge of the eggs of that most interesting family, the 

 Accipitres. Doubtless, however, there are collectors who have eggs 

 of species not included in either the Swann or the Gordon collec- 

 tions. We should like to know of them and to describe them in 

 our pages. 



We should like to be able to publish in forthcoming issues 

 descriptions of some of the little-known species found in some of 

 our readers' collections. Most of the great natural geographical 

 areas have been worked over to such an extent that the very rare 



