72 Short Notices of Ornitholoy'ical Puhlications. 



Ooilvie-Grant. There is also an obituary note on the hxte 

 Mr. Eugene W. Gates, who died in November 1911. He 

 was Secretary of the British Orn. Union from 1898 till 

 1901. 



July 1912. — On the Birds of Ngamiland by W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, with Itinerary and Field-Notes by R. B. Woosnam. — 

 This is an account of a collection of Birds made on a trip to 

 Lake Ngami by Messrs. Woosnam and the Hon. Gerald 

 Legge, the expenses of which were borne partly by the Royal 

 Society and partly by individuals — including the Duke of 

 Bedford and the late ^fr. Rowland Ward. The collector 

 says he could not obtain a complete or representative col- 

 lection owing to their hurried departure consequent upon 

 the illness of one of the party. 



Four new species were discovered — Cisticola kahiJiarice, 

 Bradi/pterus bedfordi, CertJtilauda kalaharia', and Tracliy- 

 jyhonus nohilis — also one new subsi)ecies, Pycnonotus tricolor 

 ngamii. The Grey Lourie of Lake Ngami is referred to 

 Neumann's palUdiceps from Angola. 



Mr. M. J. NicoU gives a long instalment of his " Contri- 

 butions to the Ornithology of Egypt (IIL The Birds of the 

 Wadi Natron)." In the account of the Annual General 

 Meeting we see that the British Ornithologists' Union then 

 consisted of 420 ordinary, 3 extra-ordinary, 9 Honorary, 

 6 Hon. Lady, 9 Colonial, and 20 Foreign Members. Dr. F. 

 Du Cane Godman was re-elected President, Mr. J. Lewis 

 Bonhote, M.A., Secretary. Mr. W. L. Sclater, M.A. (late 

 Director S.A. Museum, and one time President of the 

 S.A.O.U.) was appointed Editor for ihe 10th series of the 

 'Ibis.' A resolution was adopted to have a medal struck for 

 presentation for eminent services to ornithology. It was 

 decided to present medals to Mr. Walter Goodfellow, Dr. 

 Wollaston, Mr. G. C. Shortridge, and C. H. B. Grant— of 

 the New Guinea expedition organised by the B. 0. U. 



October 1912. — This number contains a short paper by 

 our esteemed friend Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the stomach- 

 contents of Birds. Mr. Swynnerton discusses the eating of 

 butterflies by birds, and the erroneous ideas obtained by 



